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etext, edata, end — end of program segments
extern etext; extern edata; extern end;
The addresses of these symbols indicate the end of various program segments:
etextThis is the first address past the end of the text segment (the program code).
edataThis is the first address past the end of the initialized data segment.
endThis is the first address past the end of the uninitialized data segment (also known as the BSS segment).
Although these symbols have long been provided on most UNIX systems, they are not standardized; use with caution.
The program must explicitly declare these symbols; they are not defined in any header file.
On some systems the names of these symbols are preceded by
underscores, thus: _etext,
_edata, and _end. These symbols are also defined for
programs compiled on Linux.
At the start of program execution, the program break will
be somewhere near &end (perhaps at the
start of the following page). However, the break will change
as memory is allocated via brk(2) or malloc(3). Use sbrk(2) with an argument of
zero to find the current value of the program break.
When run, the program below produces output such as the following:
$ ./a.out First address past: program text (etext) 0x8048568 initialized data (edata) 0x804a01c uninitialized data (end) 0x804a024
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
extern char etext, edata, end; /* The symbols must have some type,
or "gcc −Wall" complains */
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("First address past:\n");
printf(" program text (etext) %10p\n", &etext);
printf(" initialized data (edata) %10p\n", &edata);
printf(" uninitialized data (end) %10p\n", &end);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
This page is part of release 3.52 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man−pages/.
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