@Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 4:03 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> _end is the end of the text segment. _edata same for the data. You can
> create these two by just creating a file that defines them as symbols = .
> And global. And link that file last. Though crt is supposed to have that.
>
Hmmm -- I might have miss remembered this...  but I'm pretty sure the way
ld(1) worked is that it supplied _edata, _etext, and _end automagically by
ld(1) IIF, there are no other undefined symbols. Adding them into a file is
probably not going to get what you want.

>
> _decmch is likely in m.s so maybe that's not included.  Iirc it should be
> next to last...
>
My bet is this key to the whole issue he is having.  If Gavin can figures
out what gives WRT _decmch, I bet it links.

@Gavin Tersteeg < gctersteeg@gmail.com> -- I would trust Warner's memory
more than mine since he tries to keep 2.9BSD alive,  but he knows I go back
to V5 and the early/mid 70s; but bits in my memory have decayed over the
years. Suggestion, take a quick peek in the sources to ld.c  and look for
it hard coding the check for those three symbols.  They will look up as
undefined originally, then latter get set to values only if there are no
other UNDEFINED symbols.

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