On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:08, 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?

These are compiler-generated symbols, usually for jump labels an the like,
and not all that interesting for /dev/ksyms.  Setting STRIPFLAGS=-g -X in 
the link settings section of Makefile.hp700 should help you to get rid of 
them.


- Klaus