/* Startup code compliant to the ELF x86-64 ABI. Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Contributed by Andreas Jaeger , 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 #ifdef SHARED /* Pass address of our own entry points to .fini and .init. */ movq __libc_csu_fini@GOTPCREL(%rip), %r8 movq __libc_csu_init@GOTPCREL(%rip), %rcx movq BP_SYM (main)@GOTPCREL(%rip), %rdi /* Call the user's main function, and exit with its value. But let the libc call main. */ call BP_SYM (__libc_start_main)@PLT #else /* Pass address of our own entry points to .fini and .init. */ movq $__libc_csu_fini, %r8 movq $__libc_csu_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) #endif 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