Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 22:18:21 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: mark AT phillipm DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <322514123wnr@phillipm.demon.co.uk> (message from Mark Phillips on Tue, 06 Feb 1996 12:58:32 GMT)
Subject: Re: DJGPP Compiler - what does ___start() do ?


> Does anyone know what ___start() does, why this phenomenon occurs and
> how it may be circumvented ?

__start() is the name of the very first address that gets executed
when the program first switches to 32-bit mode.  Since it's near the
beginning of the address space, it tends to take the blame for a wide
variety of program failures, since that's the best guess that the
debugger can make as to where the program was when the failure
happened.