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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GNU assembler
Date: 20 Jul 1996 04:04:00 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
[demo deleted]
: (I think the -e entry is not strictly necessary if your program cares
: to jump into its entry point. Mine doesn't, without the -e entry, the
: "Hello world!\n" would have been executed as program code.)
The ld man page:
CAVEATS
An entry point must now explicitly be given if the output is intended to
be a normal executable program. This was not the case for the previous
version of ld.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....