From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: Carlo Agostini <carlo.agostini@yacme.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Problem with hello ... entry point
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:47:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B986DA3.F6670068@redhat.com>
References: <3B939F4F.D15734D4@yacme.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00164.html

Carlo Agostini wrote:
> 
> load -v -r -m xmodem 0x00088680
> 
> file loaded 0x00088680-0x00163f80
> 
> Subsequently in memory I find
> 
> du -b 0x00088680 -l 0xff
> 
> 0x00088680: 7F45 4C46 0101 0100  0000 0000 0000 0000
> |.ELF............|
[snip] 
> How I make to understand where is the entry point of the program hello ?

You should use the binary version of the file, i.e. convert to binary with:

i386-elf-objcopy -O binary hello hello.bin

But perhaps it would be easier to use i386-elf-gdb to download, debug and
run your test executables, unless you deliberately wanted to use redboot
for some particular reason?

Jifl
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