On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:43PM +0530, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote: > Why should the application or the toolchains depend on pagesize? I am > not very clear on this. Can someone explain it? To allow loading directly with mmap the executable file's layout must be such that it's it's segments are on offsets that are a multiple of the page size so in turn the linker must know that alignment. Ralf