Re: Query regarding _etext, _edata, _end.

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Followup to:  <[email protected]>
By author:    "vamsi krishna" <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello All,
> 
> Are the virtual address's &_etext, &_edata and &_end , always
> correspond to END OF TEXT, END OF DATA and END OF BSS ?
> 
> If yes , will these be always supported in the newer kernels coming in future?
> 

That's a feature of the linker, not of the kernel.

I don't think they'll go away, but they may not be supported on all platforms.

	-ha
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