1 /* Startup code compliant to the 64 bit S/390 ELF ABI.
2 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com).
4 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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35 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
38 This is the canonical entry point, usually the first thing in the text
39 segment. Most registers' values are unspecified, except for:
41 %r14 Contains a function pointer to be registered with `atexit'.
42 This is how the dynamic linker arranges to have DT_FINI
43 functions called for shared libraries that have been loaded
44 before this code runs.
46 %r15 The stack contains the arguments and environment:
51 (8*(argc+1))(%r15) envp[0]
58 .type _start,@function
60 /* Load argc and argv from stack. */
61 la %r4,8(%r15) # get argv
62 lg %r3,0(%r15) # get argc
64 /* Align the stack to a double word boundary. */
68 /* Setup a stack frame and a parameter area. */
69 aghi %r15,-176 # make room on stack
70 xc 0(8,%r15),0(%r15) # clear back-chain
72 /* Set up arguments for __libc_start_main:
73 main, argc, argv, envp, _init, _fini, rtld_fini, stack_end
74 Note that envp will be determined later in __libc_start_main.
76 stmg %r14,%r15,160(%r15) # store rtld_fini/stack_end to parameter area
78 larl %r6,__libc_csu_fini # load pointer to __libc_csu_fini
79 larl %r5,__libc_csu_init # load pointer to __libc_csu_init
81 /* Ok, now branch to the libc main routine. */
83 larl %r2,main@GOTENT # load pointer to main
85 brasl %r14,__libc_start_main@plt
87 larl %r2,main # load pointer to main
88 brasl %r14,__libc_start_main
91 /* Crash if __libc_start_main returns. */
94 /* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data. */
100 data_start = __data_start