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tables.  I am surprised the global common variables are being placed
in $DLT$.  I would have thought they should have been placed in $BSS$.

> You should be able to use "_edata" and "_end" to figure out how much 
> memory to initialize to zero at startup, or you could have the boot 
> loader do that for you -- the information is in the a.out aux header.

I haven't verified this myself but I believe others have determined
that the kernel needs to clear unitialized data itself because of the
various different way it is loaded.

> By the way, the SOM linker does support "scripts" of a sort. They're 
> called k-files (because you use the -k option to specify them), and they 
> allow you to control the placement of your spaces and subspaces within 
> the address space.

That's good to know and it might provide a better way for the kernel to
determine its end.

Dave
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