From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: ak@suse.de, bwalle@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:37:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018153751.c9c458c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071018221813.GA23801@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:18:13 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> And I recall that extern char sym[] is considered correct by binutils
> people - but I'm not 100% sure and google did not give me an appropriate hit.
An ancient memory tells me that these things are traditionally
declared as plain old int:
extern int start;
extern int edata;
etc.
However
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/p_man/cat3/standard/_rt_symbol_table_size.z
disagrees with me.
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~saul/parasite/man/man3/end.3.html agrees with me
http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.S/end.S.html agrees with me
http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/end.3.htm agrees with me
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?etext+3C agrees with me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 11:15 [patch 0/3] Protect crashkernel against BSS overlap Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 11:15 ` [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 21:48 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-18 21:58 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-18 22:00 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-18 22:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-18 22:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-18 22:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-18 22:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-19 0:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-19 12:52 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-10-19 14:48 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 11:15 ` [patch 2/3] Introduce BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 11:15 ` [patch 3/3] Use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on x86 Bernhard Walle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-16 16:28 [patch 0/3] Protect crashkernel against BSS overlap Bernhard Walle
2007-10-16 16:28 ` [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree Bernhard Walle
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