From: "Chris Burgess" <jazz AT uknet DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ld (that comes with djgpp) major problems
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:34:21 -0000
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Yeah I get what you mean now, the problem I have is still there, but not
what I thought it was.
I understand now that the "rubbish" in my object file just fills up space
and doesn't effect the file - I just thought it was what was causing my
"start" symbol not being moved to the start of my binary image.
You see if you look at my kernel.ld, I made the entry point to be the symbol
"start".
When I have the kernel.o file I want to objcopy it to another format -
binary format for obvious reasons.
What does the entry point in binary mean? Shouldn't the start of the binary
file become the entry point. ie the coff file containing the "start" symbol
be moved to the beginning of the binary image.
ok put another way what exactly does the "entry point" mean in general -
what enters at that point?

Hope you can help.

Thanks

Chris

PS another Q. in compiled C code what is the difference between the .data
sections and the .bss sections, or more specifically what are each used for
in C.