Subject: Re: System.Map
From: Danilo Godec (danci@kibla.org)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 05:48:28 PDT
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jim Gettys wrote:
> How about the more interesting question: What is System.map, and
> why should I care? (to be cynical?)
> - Jim
I guess this file maps various kernel symbols (huge hex numbers) to their
'human readable' names. So if something goes wrong, the system can tell
you that it got to do with 'isa_device_interrupt' instead of
'fffffc0000315380'.
I'm likely to guess wrong though... :)
D.
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