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Re: libc behind the curtain

On 6/11/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote: 
On Monday 11 June 2007, Metuki Sabhe wrote:
> when I build a simple C program, I see it is linked against:
>
> crt1.o
> crti.o
> crtbegin.o
> -lgcc
> -lgcc_s
> crtend.o
> crtn.o
>
> What are those files ?

the crt files are the C RunTime files while the -l libraries are internal gcc
libraries

does the gcc libraries add code to the final executable too ?

where can I read the sources for the C RunTime files (i didn't find any crt*
in glibc-2.5) ?

Thank You
Metuki

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