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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
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Subject: Re: Default entry point for ELF shared objects
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* Hans-Peter Nilsson:

> Let me rephrase: since we *can't* say "no start address", a
> guess that is much more likely to be correct, is "the address of
> the first byte of the text *segment*" (for formats where that
> term applies) than the that of the .text *section*.

Just to be clear, ELF specifies 0 as =E2=80=9Cno start address=E2=80=9D.  A=
nd I'm only
interested in ELF these days =E2=80=A6

Thanks,
Florian