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> Hello everybody,
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> First of all pls "newbie mode on", so flames on me. I have two related
> questions:
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> 1) Can somebody tell/point me to the appropriate resource that explains
> the differences between the static kernel symbol table (System.map)
> and the exported kernel symbol table (/proc/ksyms) ? If my
> undestanding is right the second contains _also_ the symbols exported
> by modules, so it should be just a superset of the first. Seems that
> is not the case. What am i missing ?
symbols that are static
> 2) The meaning of the second field in System.map (t/T) ?
static/public functions.
BTW, there are other types - d and D (same for data), r/R (read-only
data), b/B (uninitialized data and A (plain linker-generated address;
actually - boundaries of sections). See man nm for details.
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