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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

  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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