Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbWEYAav (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 20:30:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964791AbWEYAav (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 20:30:51 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:44985 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWEYAau (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 20:30:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end. Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <3faf05680605231804q5aa8d65fqeb02026dd1515876@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1148517024 6782 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2006 00:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:30:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 22 Followup to: <3faf05680605231804q5aa8d65fqeb02026dd1515876@mail.gmail.com> By author: "vamsi krishna" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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 - 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/