> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 03:02:59 +0300
> "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:54:21 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > 
> > > Oh, that sounds suspiciously familiar:
> > > 
> > > RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/netwinder/conf/kern.ldscript,v
> > 
> > See also:
> > 
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2003/06/10/0012.html
> 
> It certainly looks like the issue, looking at the numbers again:
> Sections:
> Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
>   0 .text         0023bf43  f0000020  f0000020  00008020  2**5
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
>   1 link_set_malloc_types 00000120  f023bf64  f023bf64  00243f64  2**2
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
>   2 link_set_sysctl_funcs 0000008c  f023c084  f023c084  00244084  2**2
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
>   3 link_set_evcnts 00000004  f023c110  f023c110  00244110  2**2
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
>   4 .data         000462c0  f023d000  f023d000  00245000  2**2
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> 
> The maths currently works out that it's actually:
> f0000020 + 0023bf43 = f0023bf63
> Rounding up to the nearest page makes it f0023c000.
> 
> However, the cats kern.ldscript isn't using SIZEOF.  perhaps the issue
> is that it doesn't list the link_set* sections in it's .text section?

It's probably similar, but it's not the same.  As Chris said, the ldscript 
doesn't use SIZEOF, and anyway, the resulting image is correct.  The 
problems start when we try to translate it into an a.out file.

R.