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Re: faq regarding
- To: ivan at torpid dot com
- Subject: Re: faq regarding
- From: msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG (Michael Sokolov)
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 00 13:18:26 CDT
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Ivan Pulleyn <ivan@torpid.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to know the size of .bss somehow. Now I see that I can
> do something like:
>
> movl $end, %eax
>
> to determine the end of the kernel image, given that I have defined
> $end in the linker script. Now I can start allocating dynamic memory
> after $end and not worry that I'm trashing .bss.
You've got it! That's exactly how it's done.
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