Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:37:51 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree |
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:18:13 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> And I recall that extern char sym[] is considered correct by binutils > people - but I'm not 100% sure and google did not give me an appropriate hit.
An ancient memory tells me that these things are traditionally declared as plain old int:
extern int start; extern int edata;
etc.
However http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/p_man/cat3/standard/_rt_symbol_table_size.z disagrees with me.
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~saul/parasite/man/man3/end.3.html agrees with me
http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.S/end.S.html agrees with me
http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/end.3.htm agrees with me
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?etext+3C agrees with me
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