From: Fokkema DOT DBRA AT delorie DOT com, 1043730 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: size of _text+_data Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:30:11 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 12 Message-ID: <7t58e3$csm@cs.vu.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: keg.cs.vu.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Poster-Key: sha1:aM6vzB6cjzMiEbk7FskiTdYGzOM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:5gsEcAIjAJc7mxKlPhXCntX9Rh0= To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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