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.
> 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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>
> 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