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@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -// The kernel layout is: -// -// text -// rodata -// data -// bss -// -// Conventionally, Unix linkers provide pseudo-symbols -// etext, edata, and end, at the end of the text, data, and bss. -// For the kernel mapping, we need the address at the beginning -// of the data section, but that's not one of the conventional -// symbols, because the convention started before there was a -// read-only rodata section between text and data. -// -// To get the address of the data section, we define a symbol -// named data and make sure this is the first object passed to -// the linker, so that it will be the first symbol in the data section. -// -// Alternative approaches would be to parse our own ELF header -// or to write a linker script, but this is simplest. - -.data -.align 4096 -.globl data -data: - .word 1 |