[Nasm-users] Re: [Nasm-devel] 2 Problems: (Strange Linking Problem) && (Strange Syntatx Error)

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

anonymous coward wrote:
>>1: *Strage Linking Problem*
> 
> 
> I'm not a Linux/GCC expert. But in the first case
> your code becomes start(), whereas in the second

_start() actually; ELF doesn't use an extra underscore.

> case it becomes main(). So have you looked at what
> start() does in the second case? (Try objdump.)

_start is the first thing that gets called, and is usually the 
entrypoint to the C library, which then calls main.  When you link with 
gcc you link in the C library initialization code.

	-hpa