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Subject: Re: Doug Rabson's kernel linker code.. 
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Sorry about the delay here.

> well.. I was reading through the code to get a better understand of
> it.. and I think that we need to export the make variable LOAD_ADDRESS
> from the Makefile to kernel, as the file kern/link_aout.c has this same
> value hard coded in it...
> 
> should something like:
> load_address.h:
> 	echo "#define LOAD_ADDRESS ${LOAD_ADDRESS}" > ${.TARGET}
> 
> and include it from kern_link_aout.c?

Do you want to do this, or set it at runtime based on the real load 
address?  I realise that at the moment the load address is fixed by the 
link phase...

mike