code review 1616042: Pad Go symbol table out to page boundary when linking d...

Pad Go symbol table out to page boundary when linking dynamically.

This avoids a crash when using cgo where glibc's malloc thinks
that it can use some of the memory following the symbol table.
This fails because the symbol table is mapped read-only, which
affects the whole page.

[iant, 2010-06-11 20:33:52]

Hello rsc (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

I'd like you to review this change.

[rsc1, 2010-06-11 20:36:42]

LGTM

[iant, 2010-06-11 20:41:58]

*** Submitted as http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=3a800e823931 ***

Pad Go symbol table out to page boundary when linking dynamically.

This avoids a crash when using cgo where glibc's malloc thinks
that it can use some of the memory following the symbol table.
This fails because the symbol table is mapped read-only, which
affects the whole page.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
http://codereview.appspot.com/1616042