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[Michael Svetlik]

>
> I think you misunderstod my problem here. It is not a c program that
> shall access this variable, i want the value of etext to be place on a
> fixed adress of the binary image. This is because a let another program
> interpret the binary image and calcualte a checksum on it i.e i need to
> know the value of etext data without running the program.
>
> Regards, Daniel Lidsten

Daniel,

I think, the SIZEOF function at
http://www.gnu.org/manual/ld-2.9.1/html_node/ld_14.html#SEC14
is what you need.
Unnecessary to say, that the symbol carrying the image length must be located 
on a fixed place - OUTSIDE - the text image....

Michael


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