GNU linker on mips

Tue Feb 2 18:07:00 GMT 1999

On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:57:54AM +0530, Koundinya.K wrote:

> My native ld sets the ENTRY to __start as on IRIX Systems.

Can anybody explain why IRIX uses a non-zero value for __start?  That
triggered quite a number of bugs in basically every piece of software that
tries to load ELF binaries into memory ...  So far we're just doing the same
thing for mips*-*-linux but there not really a good reason.

  Ralf