On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:37:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:18:13 +0200 > Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote: > > > And I recall that extern char sym[] is considered correct by binutils > > people - but I'm not 100% sure and google did not give me an appropriate hit. > > An ancient memory tells me that these things are traditionally > declared as plain old int: > > extern int start; > extern int edata; int is probably one of the less useful types. Typical operation is computing the difference between two symbols in bytes. &int without cast would give you a useless scaled size. -Andi
