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* Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end.
@ 2006-05-24  1:04 vamsi krishna
  2006-05-24  1:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
  2006-05-25  0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: vamsi krishna @ 2006-05-24  1:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hello All,

Are the virtual address's &_etext, &_edata and &_end , always
correspond to END OF TEXT, END OF DATA and END OF BSS ?

If yes , will these be always supported in the newer kernels coming in future?

Thank you,
Vamsi.

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* Re: Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end.
  2006-05-24  1:04 Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end vamsi krishna
@ 2006-05-24  1:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
  2006-05-25  0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2006-05-24  1:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: vamsi krishna; +Cc: linux-kernel


> If yes , will these be always supported in the newer kernels coming in future?


that's doubtful; there is no such guarantee of any kind of kernel
internals in linux... I don't see these being any kind of special
exception.

you made me curious... what do you want to use these for?


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* Re: Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end.
  2006-05-24  1:04 Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end vamsi krishna
  2006-05-24  1:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
@ 2006-05-25  0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2006-05-25  0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Followup to:  <3faf05680605231804q5aa8d65fqeb02026dd1515876@mail.gmail.com>
By author:    "vamsi krishna" <vamsi.krishnak@gmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello All,
> 
> Are the virtual address's &_etext, &_edata and &_end , always
> correspond to END OF TEXT, END OF DATA and END OF BSS ?
> 
> If yes , will these be always supported in the newer kernels coming in future?
> 

That's a feature of the linker, not of the kernel.

I don't think they'll go away, but they may not be supported on all platforms.

	-ha

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