On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 12:08  PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> When I run nm(1) on the ELF image I see lots and lots of symbols like
> 00641374 t .LC0
>
> I did a
> $ nm netbsd| grep -v ' t .LC' | wc -l
>     9810
>
> This number looks more sane to me. (The 1.6 kernel of my PReP machine
> has 9122 symbols. I have no other NetBSD kenel to compare at hand.)
> What do these ".LC" symbols mean?

.LC* are local symbols.  Something is awry; those should be stripped 
out when the kernel is linked.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>