/* Startup code compliant to the ELF Mips ABI. Copyright (C) 1995, 1997, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 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 Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include #ifndef ENTRY_POINT #error ENTRY_POINT needs to be defined for start.S on MIPS/ELF. #endif /* This is the canonical entry point, usually the first thing in the text segment. The SVR4/Mips ABI (pages 3-31, 3-32) says that when the entry point runs, most registers' values are unspecified, except for: v0 ($2) 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. sp ($29) The stack contains the arguments and environment: 0(%esp) argc 4(%esp) argv[0] ... (4*argc)(%esp) NULL (4*(argc+1))(%esp) envp[0] ... NULL ra ($31) The return address register is set to zero so that programs that search backword through stack frames recognize the last stack frame. */ /* We need to call: __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) */ #ifdef __PIC__ /* A macro to (re)initialize gp. We can get the run time address of 0f in ra ($31) by blezal instruction. In this early phase, we can't save gp in stack and .cprestore doesn't work properly. So we set gp by using this macro. */ #define SET_GP \ .set noreorder; \ bltzal $0,0f; \ nop; \ 0: .cpload $31; \ .set reorder; #endif .text .globl ENTRY_POINT ENTRY_POINT: #ifdef __PIC__ SET_GP #endif move $31, $0 la $4, main /* main */ lw $5, 0($29) /* argc */ addu $6, $29, 4 /* argv */ /* Allocate space on the stack for seven arguments and make sure the stack is aligned to double words (8 bytes). */ and $29, 0xfffffff8 subu $29, 32 la $7, _init /* init */ la $8, _fini sw $8, 16($29) /* fini */ sw $2, 20($29) /* rtld_fini */ sw $29, 24($29) /* stack_end */ jal __libc_start_main hlt: b hlt /* Crash if somehow it 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