Use of symbolic names

Masahiro Adegawa adegawa at zerosoft.co.jp
Wed Jan 19 20:39:51 PST 2000


hi,

Your kdb patch version may be v0.5 for kernel-2.2.10.
'arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S' was added on kernel-2.2.11.

masahiro

>Actually some global symbolic names are mapped to the wrong
>addresses. Typically those appearing 'after' kdb_null in ksym.h file.
>(2nd occurance).
>
>The address picked up by kdb for these names is different from the address
>appearing in System.map file. All the names appearing before this
>are mapped to proper addresses.
>
>I have not verified, but the offset between the proper addresses (in System.map)
>and the addresses picked by kdb seems to be constant.
>--
>Srikant




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