Re: "N" symbols and System.map

H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-05T22:28:35Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:24:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> right now, we filter out symbols that nm tag N, meaning "debugging
>> symbols", from System.map. However, at least on x86, the
>> linker-generated symbol _end is tagged N, and in fact is the only N in
>> the entire image.
>>
>> Are there other architectures which would suffer if N were included in
>> System.map, or would that be a reasonable thing to do?
>
> Peter - what is status here?
>
> Do you see _end tagged N with -tip?
> We landed a lot of changes to vmlinux.lds there.
>
> Needless to say I have not included N symbols for now.
>

I haven't checked it for a bit, as my immediate need for it disappeared,
but I don't think it's changed.

-hpa