From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 14 11:59:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA00798 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:59:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00784 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:59:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA24628; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:47:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611141947.MAA24628@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: data segment To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:47:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: cskim@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199611140520.AAA02018@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Nov 14, 96 00:20:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > FreeBSD (internally) distinguishes between .text, .data, > .bss by mechanisms that are not named ".text" handler, ".data" handler, > and ".bss" handler :-). It does so by the attributes of the segments. > Take a look at the code in /sys/kern/imgact_aout.c for how the segments > are set-up. I understand that it can be confusing, but the names ".text", > ".data", and ".bss" are historical, and mostly imply certain segment > attributes. Any chance we can get some additional mappings defined to coincide with the Microsoft mappings? I've been trying to load (and use) some simple NT drivers, and they want "pageable" (which I wouldn't expect to do anything, initially anyway) and "discradable" for init, etc., etc.. If you need a full list, I can provide it with a day or so lead time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.