From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA02466 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 13:15:31 -0700 To: Philipp Rumpf cc: Paul Bame , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] _end symbol in parisc linux? Reply-To: law@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 06 Nov 1999 19:26:14 +0100. <19991106192614.H11609@mathe.stud.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 13:08:22 -0700 Message-ID: <30261.941918902@upchuck> From: Jeffrey A Law List-ID: In message <19991106192614.H11609@mathe.stud.uni-erlangen.de>you write: > > Anybody know how to get PA-Linux to have an _end symbol like > > most other programs, including Intel Linux? > > AFAIK we would need to have linker scripts to do so, which seems to be impo > ssible > with the HP/UX ld. So this is on the "things that will get nicer when we h > ave > GNU binutils again" list. Actually, you can with SOM with clever use of the sort_key attribute within a subspace. Create a new subspace with a larger than normal sort key. Within that space create a single symbol "_end". Though I'd worry about precisely *why* someone wants the _end symbol; whatever they're trying to do there's probably a better way. jeff