"N" symbols and System.map

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 01 2009 - 18:24:37 EST


Hi all,

right now, we filter out symbols that nm tag N, meaning "debugging symbols", from System.map. However, at least on x86, the linker-generated symbol _end is tagged N, and in fact is the only N in the entire image.

Are there other architectures which would suffer if N were included in System.map, or would that be a reasonable thing to do?

-hpa

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