From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end.
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:30:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e52tr0$6jt$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3faf05680605231804q5aa8d65fqeb02026dd1515876@mail.gmail.com
Followup to: <3faf05680605231804q5aa8d65fqeb02026dd1515876@mail.gmail.com>
By author: "vamsi krishna" <vamsi.krishnak@gmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello All,
>
> Are the virtual address's &_etext, &_edata and &_end , always
> correspond to END OF TEXT, END OF DATA and END OF BSS ?
>
> If yes , will these be always supported in the newer kernels coming in future?
>
That's a feature of the linker, not of the kernel.
I don't think they'll go away, but they may not be supported on all platforms.
-ha
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-24 1:04 Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end vamsi krishna
2006-05-24 1:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-25 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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