[Bug ld/10865] The entry point is mainCRTStartup

[giecrilj at stegny dot 2a dot pl]

------- Additional Comments From giecrilj at stegny dot 2a dot pl  2009-11-10 
16:14 -------
Subject: RE:  The entry point is mainCRTStartup

That patch is right, thanks, except that that PE is rather surprising
because is not used as a target symbol within gcc docs.  I cannot tell about
BeOS because I never got in touch with one.  I am going to report a bug
against MinGW as soon as the ld documentation is fixed to specify the
startup symbols supported.  That information should probably go to the
platform-specific section of ld also, except that I hope it is subject to
change because the implementation should be augmented to support
wide-character applications properly (or at least as properly as MSVCRT
allows, which means UTF-16LE and BMP only).
Cheers,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nickc at redhat dot com [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:00 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Bug ld/10865] The entry point is mainCRTStartup


------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2009-11-10 16:00
-------
Hi Christopher,

The uploaded patch changes the documentation to read:

   There are several ways to set the entry point.  The linker will 
   set the entry point by trying each of the following methods in 
   order, and stopping when one of them succeeds:

   * the `-e' ENTRY command-line option;

   * the `ENTRY(SYMBOL)' command in a linker script;

   * the value of a target specific symbol, if it is defined;  For many
     targets this is `start', but PE and BeOS based systems for example
     check a list of possible entry symbols, matching the first one
     found.

   * the address of the first byte of the `.text' section, if present;

   * The address `0'.

Does this seem OK to you ?

Cheers
  Nick

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