Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:46:59 -0800 (PST)
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To: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Writing to a file from dtor doesn't work!
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 11:24  11/5/1997 +0100, Christopher Croughton wrote:

>(My question about whether it was in the library was due to experience
>with other compilers where the startup/exit code is in a separate module
>linked explicitly by the compiler rather than in the library itself.  I'm
>glad to hear that it's in a standard library module...)
Actually, it is both. There's a module called `crt0.o' which contains the
most basic startup and __exit code (and also sbrk, IIRC).  I think due to
something in the linker the file containing the `start' entry point has to
be first on the linker command line. But most of the interesting startup
things are done by modules of the C library, which are pulled in by crt0.o.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net