Re: linux object file containing all kernel symbols and suitablefor userspace linking?

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Sun Sep 28 2008 - 10:07:08 EST


On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:22:48AM -0400, Daniel Rosenthal wrote:
> It's looks close, but it seems to be missing some symbols. Below is
> an excerpt of some of the some of the error messages that come up when
> trying to link vmlinux.o to another object file. It looks like all
> the binary layout related symbols are missing, and jiffies also.
> How/when are these symbols normally linked into the final kernel
> image?

These are proided by the linker script.

Jeff

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