Re: "N" symbols and System.map

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Andreas - can you explain what is happning here?
>
> My best guess would be that it has to do with the fact that the _end
> symbol is attached to the .end section which is located before the debug
> sections, but the .end section is empty, so the symbol has the same
> address as the following debug section.  The ppc linker script does not
> attach the _end symbol to any section, so it becomes an absolute symbol.

Yes; we used to do that in x86 too, but it messes up the post-processing 
for the relocatable kernel.

	-hpa
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