Re: How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:58:08 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: gcc, ld, or 2 ELF specs that I looked at. An objdump -t of my kernel reveals that there is no _end symbol. Is it possible at all to obtain the size of the kernel? Are you using your own linker script? Also, I am unable to find the

Re: How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-25 Thread Phil Frost
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:58:08 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: gcc, ld, or 2 ELF specs that I looked at. An objdump -t of my kernel reveals that there is no _end symbol. Is it possible at all to obtain the size of the kernel? Are you using your own linker script?

Re: How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:15:19 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: No, i'm using ld and gcc, all standard development tools. They are both straight from the debian packages. One thing to note is that I'm building a kernel, not a linux application, so I compile with -nostdinc which means that nothing,

How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-24 Thread Phil Frost
I can figure out the size of the modules, but I can not find any way to figure out the size of the kernel. A mail on this list a bit back said that the _end symbol could be used; however, I could not find any documentation of any such symbol by any name in the documentation of gcc, ld, or 2