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+/* Startup code compliant to the ELF x86-64 ABI.
+   Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+   Contributed by Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>, 2001.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
+   Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
+   02111-1307 USA.  */
+
+/* This is the canonical entry point, usually the first thing in the text
+   segment.  The SVR4/i386 ABI (pages 3-31, 3-32) says that when the entry
+   point runs, most registers' values are unspecified, except for:
+
+   %rdx		Contains a function pointer to be registered with `atexit'.
+		This is how the dynamic linker arranges to have DT_FINI
+		functions called for shared libraries that have been loaded
+		before this code runs.
+
+   %rsp		The stack contains the arguments and environment:
+		0(%rsp)			argc
+		8(%rsp)			argv[0]
+		...
+		(8*argc)(%rsp)		NULL
+		(8*(argc+1))(%rsp)	envp[0]
+		...
+					NULL
+*/
+
+#include "bp-sym.h"
+
+	.text
+	.globl _start
+	.type _start,@function
+_start:
+	/* Clear the frame pointer.  The ABI suggests this be done, to mark
+	   the outermost frame obviously.  */
+	xorq %rbp, %rbp
+
+	/* Extract the arguments as encoded on the stack and set up
+	   the arguments for __libc_start_main (int (*main) (int, char **, char **),
+		   int argc, char *argv,
+		   void (*init) (void), void (*fini) (void),
+		   void (*rtld_fini) (void), void *stack_end).
+	   The arguments are passed via registers and on the stack:
+	main:		%rdi
+	argc:		%rsi
+	argv:		%rdx
+	init:		%rcx
+	fini:		%r8
+	rtld_fini:	%r9
+	stack_end:	stack.	*/
+
+	movq %rdx, %r9		/* Address of the shared library termination
+				   function.  */
+	popq %rsi		/* Pop the argument count.  */
+	movq %rsp, %rdx		/* argv starts just at the current stack top.  */
+	/* Align the stack to a 16 byte boundary to follow the ABI.  */
+	andq  $~15, %rsp
+
+	pushq %rax		/* Push garbage because we push 8 more bytes.  */
+
+	/* Provide the highest stack address to the user code (for stacks
+	   which grow downwards).  */
+	pushq %rsp
+
+	/* Pass address of our own entry points to .fini and .init.  */
+	movq $_fini, %r8
+	movq $_init, %rcx
+
+	movq $BP_SYM (main), %rdi
+
+	/* Call the user's main function, and exit with its value.
+	   But let the libc call main.	  */
+	call BP_SYM (__libc_start_main)
+
+	hlt			/* Crash if somehow `exit' does return.	 */
+
+/* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data.  */
+	.data
+	.globl __data_start
+__data_start:
+	.long 0
+	.weak data_start
+	data_start = __data_start