Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:44:35 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: bright@hotjobs.com (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huzzah! Message-ID: <199811282344.KAA26555@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811281801340.1605-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Nov 28, 98 06:21:43 pm"
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I do have a concern, it seems that linking requires a crt0.o, why is this? > I know crt0.o is the "startup code" for the programs, but for some reason > i thought elf makes it unnessesary? Or do our ELF utils automagically > attach the file? On elf, we use crt1.o for both i386 and alpha. This is set in the specs that gcc is compiled with. FreeBSD/Sparc64 should be (configured to be) consistent. The crt code is definitely required. That's where the user-space program initialisation is performed (e.g. C++ constructors). It's also the object that contains the global variable __sF[] for stdin, stdout and stderr. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the messagehelp
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