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Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] nuSqueak source
From: <p.fazio@eggingtons.com>
Date: Fri, October 30, 2020 5:48 am
To: "Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
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Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] nuSqueak source
From: K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, October 30, 2020 5:39 am
To: vm-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org


On 29/10/20 9:01 pm, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> The OS can impose radically different constraints on the JIT.  In
> Mankato it is impossible to derive an executable region from mmap that
> is at the same time writable.  On MacOS it is possible, but the VM needs
> a capability conveyed through its Info.plist and baked in when the app
> bundle is signed.

doesn't PROT_EXEC imply PROT_READ? a region with write|exec would
essentially be equivalent to an unprotected one.

> Other linuxes for Pi4 May impose different constraints.  As I only have
> these two variants I need your help in dealing with differing
> constraints on these other platforms.

I don't have a RP 4 board to test the Ubuntu aarch64 (COVID-19 lockdown
constraints). Sorry :-(.

Regards .. Subbu