> > > 	movl	$(((_end-_edata)+3)>>2),%ecx
> > > 
> > 
> > This looks very suspicious to me. The symbols `_end' and `_edata' are not
> > known to the assembler, so doing arithmetic on them is pretty bogus.
> Exactly.  Our object file format is not powerful enough to express these
> kind of expressions (so the linker can resolve them), is it, Paul?

Is _any_ common object file format powerful enough to resolve:

	(result of arithmetic expression on two symbols) modified by
	add modified by shift?


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