Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011)
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HN comment orderOne past thread: Linux x86 Program Start Up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739661 - Dec 2014 (30 comments)
Coming from DOS/Windows the amount of... extra cruft that gets linked into a Linux binary by default seems rather excessive. The equivalent startup code in Windows for a C program doesn't involve constructors or destructors, for one thing. From the entry point, there's a total of ~7 functions called in the default stub - most of them for parsing the environment variables and creating argc/argv, and for programs that don't need that it's quite easy to eliminate those too. (The…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-12 | Linux x86 Program Start UpFirst breakout | bluetomcat | 143 | 30 |
| 2017-03-25 | Linux X86 Program Start Up | ezcode | 9 | 0 |
| 2018-11-05 | Linux x86 Program Start Up or – How the heck do we get to main()? | jrepinc | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-02-18 | Linux x86 Program Start Up | Jonhoo | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-11-04 | Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | rwmj | 187 | 21 |
| 2023-06-14 | Linux x86 Program Start Up – How do we get to main()? | lrsjng | 7 | 0 |