Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261180AbTHFNgl (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:36:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261874AbTHFNgl (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:36:41 -0400 Received: from omega-real.bemac.com ([194.193.56.2]:35761 "EHLO omega-real.bemac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261180AbTHFNgk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:36:40 -0400 Subject: Multiple symbols same address in vmlinux map file? huh? From: Andy Winton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 06 Aug 2003 14:39:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1060177192.2866.11.camel@pussy.bemac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 36 hi there, When doing a 'nm' on the vmlinux I see that some different symbols are at the same address. This seems very strange to me. Can anyone explain this? What I typed (to see the duplicates only)... nm vmlinux-2.4.18-14 | awk 'BEGIN{oldval=01;} { if ($1==oldval) { if(plast) { print "\n"; print oldrow;} print $0; plast=0} else plast=1; oldrow=$0; oldval=$1}' - | more What I saw.... [stuff removed...] c0305a78 d emergency_lock c0305a78 d emergency_pages c0303100 d i8259A_irq_type c0303100 D i8259A_lock c0386628 B jiffies c0386628 B jiffies_64 [stuff removed...] Any idea? Thanks again, andy winton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/