glibc/sysdeps/i386/start.S

/* Startup code compliant to the ELF i386 ABI.
   Copyright (C) 1995-2013 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 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.

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   programs, and to distribute those programs without any restriction
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   License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they
   cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked
   into another program.)

   Note that people who make modified versions of this file are not
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   General Public License gives permission to release a modified
   version without this exception; this exception also makes it
   possible to release a modified version which carries forward this
   exception.

   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.

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   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

/* 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:

   %edx		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.

   %esp		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
*/

	.text
	.globl _start
	.type _start,@function
_start:
	/* Clear the frame pointer.  The ABI suggests this be done, to mark
	   the outermost frame obviously.  */
	xorl %ebp, %ebp

	/* Extract the arguments as encoded on the stack and set up
	   the arguments for `main': argc, argv.  envp will be determined
	   later in __libc_start_main.  */
	popl %esi		/* Pop the argument count.  */
	movl %esp, %ecx		/* argv starts just at the current stack top.*/

	/* Before pushing the arguments align the stack to a 16-byte
	(SSE needs 16-byte alignment) boundary to avoid penalties from
	misaligned accesses.  Thanks to Edward Seidl <seidl@janed.com>
	for pointing this out.  */
	andl $0xfffffff0, %esp
	pushl %eax		/* Push garbage because we allocate
				   28 more bytes.  */

	/* Provide the highest stack address to the user code (for stacks
	   which grow downwards).  */
	pushl %esp

	pushl %edx		/* Push address of the shared library
				   termination function.  */

#ifdef SHARED
	/* Load PIC register.  */
	call 1f
	addl $_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, %ebx

	/* Push address of our own entry points to .fini and .init.  */
	leal __libc_csu_fini@GOTOFF(%ebx), %eax
	pushl %eax
	leal __libc_csu_init@GOTOFF(%ebx), %eax
	pushl %eax

	pushl %ecx		/* Push second argument: argv.  */
	pushl %esi		/* Push first argument: argc.  */

	pushl main@GOT(%ebx)

	/* Call the user's main function, and exit with its value.
	   But let the libc call main.    */
	call __libc_start_main@PLT
#else
	/* Push address of our own entry points to .fini and .init.  */
	pushl $__libc_csu_fini
	pushl $__libc_csu_init

	pushl %ecx		/* Push second argument: argv.  */
	pushl %esi		/* Push first argument: argc.  */

	pushl $main

	/* Call the user's main function, and exit with its value.
	   But let the libc call main.    */
	call __libc_start_main
#endif

	hlt			/* Crash if somehow `exit' does return.  */

#ifdef SHARED
1:	movl	(%esp), %ebx
	ret
#endif

/* To fulfill the System V/i386 ABI we need this symbol.  Yuck, it's so
   meaningless since we don't support machines < 80386.  */
	.section .rodata
	.globl _fp_hw
_fp_hw:	.long 3
	.size _fp_hw, 4
	.type _fp_hw,@object

/* 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