Re: Re: where is gccmain

[<vishu27 at cox dot net>]

So if I have gccmain, I would not have to have init and fini in my startup crt0.S or define those symbols else where right?

Thanks
Vish
> 
> From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
> Date: 2003/11/05 Wed PM 12:38:58 EST
> To: vishu27@cox.net
> CC: crossgcc@sources.redhat.com,  Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
> Subject: Re: where is gccmain
> 
> > Hi,
> >     When I assemble a simple C program, there is a call to __gccmain. Does any one know where this is located. Is it somewhere in libgcc.a? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >Also does this __gccmain call the _init function in order to call 
> constructor of static objects and also registers _fini with __atexit to 
> call their destructors or does this calling of _init and registering of 
> _fini has to be done in crt0.S as it is done in the default crt0.S build 
> for newlib. I am using a gcc toolchain for xscale.
> 
> Normally, if your compiler is using __gccmain it won't be using init and 
> fini (and vice-versa).  The two different ways of achieving the same 
> effect.
> 
> R.
> 
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