Start address of a binary

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 20, 2001, Sébastien Côté <scote1@Matrox.COM> wrote:

> ld : warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0180074

> Is 0x180074 right?

It may be.  If no _start symbol exists in the executable, the linker
probably assumes it should start in the beginning of the .text
section.  But you'd better define _start properly so that it calls
global initializers, then main().

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