Re: "N" symbols and System.map

Andreas Schwab
2009-05-01T23:10:34Z

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> 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.

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