END(3C)                                                   END(3C)



     NAME
          end, etext, edata - last locations in program

     SYNOPSIS
          extern end;
          extern etext;
          extern edata;
          extern eprol;

     DESCRIPTION
          These names refer neither to routines nor to locations with
          interesting contents.  The address of etext is the first
          address above the program text, edata is above the
          initialized data region, end is above the uninitialized data
          region, and eprol is the first instruction of the user's
          program that follows the runtime startup routine.

          When execution begins, the program break coincides with end,
          but it is reset by the routines brk(2), malloc(3), standard
          input/output (stdio(3)), the profile (-p) option of cc(1),
          etc.  The current value of the program break is reliably
          returned by `sbrk(0)', see brk(2).

     SEE ALSO
          brk(2), malloc(3c)

     ORIGIN
          MIPS Computer Systems



























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