From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "N" symbols and System.map
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 14:26:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FF5D76.8040204@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2skjkzhu6.fsf@igel.home>
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:
>
>> Andreas - can you explain what is happning here?
>
> My best guess would be that it has to do with the fact that the _end
> symbol is attached to the .end section which is located before the debug
> sections, but the .end section is empty, so the symbol has the same
> address as the following debug section. The ppc linker script does not
> attach the _end symbol to any section, so it becomes an absolute symbol.
>
Yes; we used to do that in x86 too, but it messes up the post-processing
for the relocatable kernel.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-01 22:24 "N" symbols and System.map H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-01 22:39 ` Luck, Tony
2009-05-01 23:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-05-01 23:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-02 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-04 19:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-04 19:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-04 21:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-05-04 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-04 21:39 ` Luck, Tony
2009-06-05 22:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-05 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-05 22:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-05 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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