Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:50:38 +0930 (CST) | From | Alan Modra <> | Subject | Re: .ident's taking up kernel space |
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Dave Jones. wrote:
> I noticed when looking at the uncompressed zImage, that the > compiler has inserted lots of identification stamps > (Seemingly at the end of every .o) Compiling with a -S argument, > and examining the asm output I see .ident directives at the end > of each file.
These all go into the .comment section of the object files. They are stripped out of the compressed image by the -R options to objcopy. grep -i objcopy `find linux/arch/ -name Makefile` to see the gory details.
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