Re: Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 20:30:35 EST


Followup to: <3faf05680605231804q5aa8d65fqeb02026dd1515876@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: "vamsi krishna" <vamsi.krishnak@xxxxxxxxx>
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
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