> > 	movl	$(((_end-_edata)+3)>>2),%ecx
> > 
> 
> This looks very suspicious to me. The symbols `_end' and `_edata' are not
> known to the assembler, so doing arithmetic on them is pretty bogus.
Exactly.  Our object file format is not powerful enough to express these
kind of expressions (so the linker can resolve them), is it, Paul?
I would say that this has probably never worked properly.

        -- Lennart