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To: Dan Brennan <dmb8@optonline.net>
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Subject: Re: as question 
In-Reply-To: Message from Dan Brennan <dmb8@optonline.net>
   of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:17:56 EDT." <3CBF29F4.B00B75B6@optonline.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:25:41 -0400
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
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>>>>> Dan Brennan writes:

Dan> In arch/ppc/kernel/head.S the following code segment exists:

Dan> lis     r0,start_here@h
Dan> ori     r0,r0,start_here@l

Dan> However, when I do objdump on head.o this is what appears:

Dan> 94:       3c 00 00 00     lis     r0,0
Dan> 98:       60 00 00 00     nop

Dan> It appears that the code which loads the address of the label start_here
Dan> does not get assembled correctly. Is this observation correct?

	What do those instructions look like in the final executable after
the link-editor has statically substituted the address of the start_here
symbol?

David

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