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Comment by dvdkon

> I suspect that hardware without an MMU is not super likely to be able to support XIP.

This seems strange to me. Don't most microcontrollers support executing directly from flash? Some even can't execute from RAM.

Though I agree with the main point, you can compile code as "PIC" - position independent code, and not bother with (ELF) relocations except for linking.

parent dvdkon 12 days ago

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