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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GNU assembler Date: 20 Jul 1996 13:58:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4sqomp$4ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31ED89D2.41C6@raleigh.ibm.com> <4sl7ik$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4spib0$23u@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > : (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. But i think that's for C programs. I've re-assembled my demo, with a "jmp entry" as the first instruction, and without the -e entry, and it seems to work. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)