"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a reference of what all the crt files are supposed todo? If > not, could someone tell me what they do?
crt*.o and similar files are startup code. I.e. code that is linked automatically into the binaries when you link C programs, and is executed before main is called. It's responsible for things like initializing libc, and getting things like environment, arguments, stdin and stdout, etc, from the operating system so that they can be passed to main and the rest of the C program in the standard way. So it's a component of the ANSI-C implementation. I think the responsibility is split between gcc (the startup code in crt*.o) and libc (the function _main), but I'm not quote sure how this all fits together. Perhaps you knew all this already, then you need to ask more specificly. /Niels _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
