In article < Pine.LNX.4.10.9911251329570.6867-100000@willamette.eecs.umich.edu >, Hsien-Hsin Lee wrote:
>
>Can anyone help me explaining why the binary (on my linux box) generated
>by the following command sequence is not working ? Might be my linker
>command is incorrect ? (I thought some of previous posts have the similar
>issue.) or the object file containing _start (crt1.o) is wrong ?
>
>[ 84 ] tmp -: gcc -S x.c
>[ 85 ] tmp -: as -o x.o x.s
>[ 86 ] tmp -: ld -o a.out /usr/lib/crt1.o x.o -lc
>[ 87 ] tmp -: ./a.out 
>./a.out: Command not found.
>[ 90 ] tmp -: file a.out 
>a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically
>linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
>
>While this is working...
>
>[ 91 ] tmp -: gcc x.c
>[ 92 ] tmp -: ./a.out 

Try gcc -v -Wl,-v to see what is linked in as crt1.o is not enough,
especially if shared libraries and the standard libc are required.
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Cheers,
Juergen

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