From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 23 15:56:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE4916A401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E818D13C4A7 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1NFu8pq031550 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:56:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id l1NFu8BS031543; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:56:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:56:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mayank Kumar Message-ID: <20070223155608.GC43770@dan.emsphone.com> References: <76EBE649FB0E0E4DA883B5840459059F143A182705@AA-EXMSG-C412.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> <20070223010358.GA4946@kobe.laptop> <20070223054321.GB43770@dan.emsphone.com> <76EBE649FB0E0E4DA883B5840459059F143A1828E9@AA-EXMSG-C412.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76EBE649FB0E0E4DA883B5840459059F143A1828E9@AA-EXMSG-C412.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: what does _eprol mean and how is it compututed X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:56:12 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 23), Mayank Kumar said: > Cool, thnks for the information. That's exactly what I was looking > for. But the cvs webaccess shows me crt0.c which actually contains > _eprol and _etext. Anyways I now understand what eprol means. Which URL are you looking at? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/csu/i386-elf/ shows crt1.c. i386/crt0.c was for a.out binaries, and FreeBSD has used elf since 3.0 (in 1998), and the file has since been deleted. It looks like most of the 5.x releases did have a leftover crt0.c, but 5.x can't even generate a.out binaries so the file is not used. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com