Re: .ident's taking up kernel space

Alan Modra (alan@SPRI.Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:50:38 +0930 (CST)


On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Dave Jones. wrote:

> I noticed when looking at the uncompressed zImage, that the
> compiler has inserted lots of identification stamps
> (Seemingly at the end of every .o) Compiling with a -S argument,
> and examining the asm output I see .ident directives at the end
> of each file.

These all go into the .comment section of the object files. They are
stripped out of the compressed image by the -R options to objcopy.
grep -i objcopy `find linux/arch/ -name Makefile` to see the gory details.

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