From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de To: "Koundinya.K" , ian@cygnus.com Cc: gas2@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com Subject: Re: GNU linker on mips Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990202114543.F1596@uni-koblenz.de> References: <199902010627.LAA05340@bombay.ddeorg.soft.net> <199902010627.LAA05340@bombay.ddeorg.soft.net> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00009.html On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:57:54AM +0530, Koundinya.K wrote: > My native ld sets the ENTRY to __start as on IRIX Systems. Can anybody explain why IRIX uses a non-zero value for __start? That triggered quite a number of bugs in basically every piece of software that tries to load ELF binaries into memory ... So far we're just doing the same thing for mips*-*-linux but there not really a good reason. Ralf