On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:32:34 +0300 Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> If start_code / end_code pointers are screwed then "VmExe" could be bigger > than total executable virtual memory and "VmLib" becomes negative: > > VmExe: 294320 kB > VmLib: 18446744073709327564 kB > > VmExe and VmLib documented as text segment and shared library code size. > > Now their sum will be always equal to mm->exec_vm which sums size of > executable and not writable and not stack areas. When does this happen? What causes start_code/end_code to get "screwed"? When these pointers are screwed, the result of end_code-start_code can still be wrong while not necessarily being negative, yes? In which case we'll still display incorrect output?