From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764602AbZEAXKe (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 19:10:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754954AbZEAXKX (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 19:10:23 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:35446 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754269AbZEAXKW (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 19:10:22 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: LKML , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: "N" symbols and System.map References: <49FB7692.2000508@linux.intel.com> X-Yow: CHUBBY CHECKER just had a CHICKEN SANDWICH in downtown DULUTH! Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 01:10:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49FB7692.2000508@linux.intel.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Fri, 01 May 2009 15:24:18 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > 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? There should not be any N symbols unless you are using stabs debugging. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."