From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: size of _text+_data
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 Fokkema DOT DBRA AT delorie DOT com wrote:

> 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?

The size of every section is usually recorded in the header of the
binary file.  Each binary file format has its own way of recording
this information; check out the `size' program from GNU Binutils which
reports the size of each section.

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