Re: Ksyms problem located.

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 11:33 pm, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 12:08  PM, 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?
>
> .LC* are local symbols.  Something is awry; those should be stripped
> out when the kernel is linked.

Not to dispute that point, but if ksyms is going to have a limit like this, it 
should fail *gracefully* and not explode with strange errors.