From:	Fokkema DOT DBRA AT delorie DOT com, 1043730 <dfokkema AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	size of _text+_data
Date:	Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:30:11 GMT
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Hi there!

You helped me very much with my far pointer problem (thank you all) so here
is another question: for my os, I link a loader along with it at the start
of the binary image. So on booting the floppy, the loader takes over and has
to load the entire kernel from disc. But how can the loader know the size of
the entire kernel? I hope that this can be determined by the linker and is
saved in a symbol of some sort? I hope you all can help me.

Thanx in advance,

David Fokkema

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