Re: "N" symbols and System.map

Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-05T22:24:42Z

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.

Sam