Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 22:07:49 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org, hasty@netcom.com Subject: Re: text's start address? Message-ID: <199503121207.WAA11049@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>(mdos reads header of mdos.mon)
>gdb mdos
>...
>Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xefbfd978) at mdos.c:176
>176 asm volatile("movl %1, %%esp; jmp %2" :
>(gdb) print ex
>$3 = {a_magic = 267, a_text = 36864, a_data = 8192, a_bss = 9540,
> a_syms = 4140, a_entry = 24, a_trsize = 0, a_drsize = 0}
>a_entry appears to have a low value
0x18.
>...
>(gdb) x/i main
>0x578 <main>: pushl %ebp
>So it appears that for me to get to main the actual address is
>0x1578. Now the question is how can I arrive at this number
>from the data structure ex?
Execution starts at 0x18, not at _main. 0x18 is in the data
structure.
Bruce
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