Subject: Re: sparc ELF kernels with a miniroot are broken.
To: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/24/1999 00:37:27
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

# matthew green wrote:
# 
# >    # Sections:
# >    # Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
# >    #   0 .text         00120468  f0004000  f0004000  00000074  2**2
# >    #                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
# >    #   1 .rodata       000199cd  f0124468  f0124468  001204dc  2**3
# >    #                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
# >    #   2 .data         0001547c  f014de38  f014de38  00139eb0  2**3
# >    #                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
# >    #   3 .bss          00023d54  f0163300  f0163300  0014f400  2**8
# >    #                   ALLOC
# >    #   4 .comment      00004f10  00000000  00000000  0014f400  2**0
# >    #                   CONTENTS, READONLY
# > interesting theory.  i'll only note that the above quoted text is from
# > the "working kernel" set, and that they both (ie, working and non) do
# > exactly the same thing here.
# 
# I would guess that since the BSS section doesn't have any contents
# that the file offset wouldn't change between that segment and the
# next segment.

But if the .bss section doesn't have any contents, why is its size
registered at $23d54?

# 
# Simon.
#