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Subject: Re: what does _eprol mean and how is it compututed
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On 2007-02-22 04:20, Mayank Kumar <mayank@microsoft.com> wrote:
> While calling monstartup in crt0.c, _eprol and _etext are passed to
> monstartup.  _etext means end of segment, what does _eprol mean and
> how is it computed

Are you sure you are talking about FreeBSD?

  build@kobe:/home/build/src$ egrep -r -e '_eprol|_etext' *
  build@kobe:/home/build/src$

I don't see any reference to '_eprol' or '_etext' in our source tree,
and 'monstartup' doesn't really ring any bells.