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info ld give much more information than man ld.

for those symbols,you need to learn something about ELF file format
(its concept of sections)

ik@cyberspace.org wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Is there any documentation for the symbols in the ld.script linker
>scripts for the linux kernel. 
>
>I'm porting Linux kernel to a mips board for which I need to understand
>the various symbols used in the kernel.
>
>For example what is the use of the following symbols
>`__init_begin'
>`__init_end'
>`__initcall_start
>`__initcall_end'
>`_ftext'
>`__setup_start'
>`__setup_end'
>
>I'm not good in these linker scripts... any help pointers would be of
>great help to me ! (I'm referrring gnu ld  manual pages ... still have a
>long way to go :(
>
>Thanks in advance !
>Indu
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