Re: boot server executables vs. execable executables

From: Christopher Fraser <chrisf_at_nospam.org>
Date: Tue Dec 20 1994 - 23:04:26 PST

But I thought Dave Hudson said:
>
> Err, running size on my statically linked boot servers I have BSS segments.

Umm, yeah, Dave's right -- the boot loader allocates space for BSS and
the kernel merges it in with the data segment view. I'd managed to
convince myself otherwise while writing my ELF loader.

Christopher.
[embarrassed and sorry]
Received on Tue Dec 20 22:36:39 1994

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