Re: Where does ppc define __start___ksymtab?

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Keith Owens wrote:

Please cc: kaos@ocs.com.au on replies, I am not on this list.

I have been trying to find where ppc defines __start___ksymtab and
__stop___ksymtab symbols.  These delimit the __ksymtab entries for
module symbols.  On every other architecture that supports modules,
arch/xxx/vmlinux.lds contains lines like this

  __start___ksymtab = .;	/* Kernel symbol table */
  __ksymtab : { *(__ksymtab) }
  __stop___ksymtab = .;

I can find no equivalent lines for ppc in a stock 2.4.0-test5 source
tree yet ppc obviously defines them somewhere.  But where?

I'm no gcc linkscript expert, but doesn't the absence of __ksymtab stuff in
vmlinux.lds simply mean that gcc can put stuff for section __ksymtab wherever
it wants in the final object file?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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