From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Paul Bame <bame@debian.fc.hp.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] _end symbol in parisc linux?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:32:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9306.942341546@upchuck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:14:38 MST. <199911111614.JAA19293@debian.fc.hp.com>
In message <199911111614.JAA19293@debian.fc.hp.com>you write:
> Perhaps you'd be kind enough to write a scrap of assembly magic
> which performs the subspace trick you mentioned earlier? Yeah
> it may be ugly and still language-system dependent, but without access
> to the SOM header at boot time there's not a prettier option.
.space $PRIVATE$
.subspa $AFTERBSS$,QUAD=1,ALIGN=8,ACCESS=31,ZERO,SORT=83
_end:
Or something close to that.
What it does is create a new data section $AFTERBSS$ which has a sort key
greater than $BSS$ ($BSS$'s sort key is 82). Within that section we define
one symbol "_end".
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-11 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-02 0:39 [parisc-linux] _end symbol in parisc linux? Paul Bame
1999-11-06 18:26 ` Philipp Rumpf
1999-11-06 20:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-11-11 15:36 ` Paul Bame
1999-11-11 15:51 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-11-11 16:14 ` Paul Bame
1999-11-11 17:32 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1999-11-11 16:46 ` John David Anglin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-02 19:13 Donald Scobbie
1999-11-08 19:18 Cary Coutant
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