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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2009-11-10 16:34:52 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2009-11-10 16:34:52 +0000
commitc3fa5e96673f53fc5fabe9ca55b740e416eca899 (patch)
tree414069225399908ffd954aeda50b6c5a255a3c5b
parentbd3cf6105b9294bdb12fe4bfb190ac4941d929a6 (diff)
downloadbinutils-redhat-c3fa5e96673f53fc5fabe9ca55b740e416eca899.tar.gz
PR ld/10864
* ld.texinfo (Entry Point): Mention that the default entry symbol is not 'start' on some targets.
-rw-r--r--ld/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--ld/ld.texinfo4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index b2c9b1008c..4043ee7e6b 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-11-10 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ PR ld/10864
+ * ld.texinfo (Entry Point): Mention that the default entry symbol
+ is not 'start' on some targets.
+
2009-11-06 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
PR ld/10912
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index 1805a5142b..8ac4c7d7d1 100644
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -2921,7 +2921,9 @@ the @samp{-e} @var{entry} command-line option;
@item
the @code{ENTRY(@var{symbol})} command in a linker script;
@item
-the value of the symbol @code{start}, if defined;
+the value of a target specific symbol, if it is defined; For many
+targets this is @code{start}, but PE and BeOS based systems for example
+check a list of possible entry symbols, matching the first one found.
@item
the address of the first byte of the @samp{.text} section, if present;
@item