RE: "N" symbols and System.map

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon May 04 2009 - 17:40:07 EST


> 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.

Perhaps a good guess. Putting something (". = . + PAGE_SIZE;") into
the .end section makes _end change type from "N" tp "B".

-Tony
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