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Subject: [alpine-user] Strange output in source code associated with linker symbol
Message-Id: <E4C575CB-9B25-404C-A850-57B4B3E2122D@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:33:19 +0100
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Hi there,

I'm having trouble by using symbols defined in a linker script in my =
source file.

In the linker script, I define symbols like:

PROVIDE(_nvarea_begin =3D   0x100 000 000);
. =3D _nvarea_begin;

PROVIDE(_nvdata_begin   =3D  . );
.nvdata . : { *(.nvdata) }
PROVIDE(_nvdata_end     =3D  . );
PROVIDE(_nvdata_size    =3D SIZEOF(.nvdata));

And in a c++ source file, they are referred as:

extern "C" char _nvdata_begin[];
extern "C" char _nvdata_end[];
extern "C" char _nvdata_size[];

In this case, as I learn from this site =
(https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Source-Code-Reference.html#Source=
-Code-Reference),

If I print the value of _nvdata_begin in the source file, it should be =
0x100 000 000 ( printf("_nvdata_begin %p", _nvdata_begin) ).=20
And for _nvdata_end and _nvdata_size, they should also be the values set =
in linker script.

This works fine in Ubuntu 16.04 as the output is:

_nvdata_begin 0x100 000 000
_nvdata_end 0x101 000 850
_nvdata_size  0x1 000 850

But the output in Alpine (Vanilla - 3.7.0-x86_64) is very strange.

It looks like:
_nvdata_begin 0x564 a9f bf9 000
_nvdata_end 0x564 aa0 bf9 850
_nvdata_size  0x564 9a0 bf9 850

Every time I run the file, it gets different values (but _nvdata_end - =
_nvdata_begin =3D 0x1 000 850 is always correct).
When I use nm to check the symbols, all the values are correct showed:
_nvdata_begin 0x100 000 000
_nvdata_end 0x101 000 850
_nvdata_size  0x1 000 850

Can someone please tells me, why this happens and how to fix it? Thanks =
in advance.

Regards,
Yuxing



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