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39 .Nd end boundaries of image segments
49 are program segment end addresses.
52 is located at the first address after the end of the text segment.
55 is located at the first address after the end of the initialized data segment.
58 is located at the first address after the end of the data segment
60 when the program is loaded. Use the
63 system call with zero as its argument to find the current end of the
72 manual page appeared in
75 Traditionally, no variable existed that pointed to the start of the
76 text segment because the text segment always started at address
77 zero. Although it is no longer valid to make this assumption, no
78 variable similar to the ones documented above exists to point to the
79 start of the text segment.