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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: link map
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:55:18 +0100
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"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:

> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:mnh651$dk4$1@dont-email.me...
>>    I have read about link maps by a linker. This is old computers though. 
>> Like PDPs and late 60s and 70s computers. Modern C programming with gcc, 
>> does it have an equivalant?

It has linker maps.  You can get gcc to pass the right option to the
linker linker like this:

  gcc -Xlinker -Map=prog.map -o prog prog.c

> Would it be the profiler, debugger, linker, or 
>> something else? This would be for a seg fault or such an error with the 
>> OS.
>
>     No sorry. I don't mean seg fault. A kernel panic. Busy day.

There are easier ways to debug the linux kernel but (a) I'm not expert,
and (b) this is not the right group to ask about that.

-- 
Ben.