How the `struct linker_set' is used in building an ELF kernel?

1999-08-01 Thread Joe Jih-Shien Lu
Hi everybody, I started studying 3.2-stable kernel source for days. There are some questions I cannot figure out in an ordinary C programmer's point of view: * In cninit(), it references a global variable `cons_set' of the type `struct linker_set,' but I don't see its definitio

How the `struct linker_set' is used in building an ELF kernel?

1999-08-01 Thread Joe Jih-Shien Lu
Hi everybody, I started studying 3.2-stable kernel source for days. There are some questions I cannot figure out in an ordinary C programmer's point of view: * In cninit(), it references a global variable `cons_set' of the type `struct linker_set,' but I don't see its definition

Re: How the `struct linker_set' is used in building an ELF kernel?

1999-08-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Jih-Shien Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started studying 3.2-stable kernel source for days. There are > some questions I cannot figure out in an ordinary C programmer's > point of view: > > * In cninit(), it references a global variable `cons_set' of

Re: How the `struct linker_set' is used in building an ELF kernel?

1999-08-05 Thread John Polstra
In article <87n1wag14v@joelu.m8.ntu.edu.tw>, Joe Jih-Shien Lu wrote: > I started studying 3.2-stable kernel source for days. There are > some questions I cannot figure out in an ordinary C programmer's > point of view: > > * In cninit(), it references a global variable `cons_set' of >