Kind of not related to m5, but do you know how do I define my own _start symbol 
in a c program?

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>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:05:35 -0800
>From: Gabe Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: Re: [m5-users] statictics  
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>I believe you use the -nostdlib option to leave out all of the standard
>library stuff, including _start which kicks off all the things Ali
>mentioned and more and then finally calls main(). In your program you'll
>then need to define _start yourself. If you're writing your program in
>assembly, then all you need to do is include a label called _start and
>put everything you want to run after it. If your program uses any system
>calls you'll have to implement stubs for those since those are part of
>the standard library too.
>
>Gabe
>
>Ali Saidi wrote:
>> No it's probably from all the libc _start code that is executed. Even  
>> if main() is a single line there is much more code that is included in  
>> the binary to setup the environment properly, get the arguments in  
>> order, see if the terminal is character or line buffered, etc. You  
>> should be able to convince the linker to not include all of this -fno- 
>> builtin, but you'll need to define a _start symbol.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Shoaib Akram wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I wrote a simple program with 3 branches and ran it on m5. The  
>>> statstics show much more branches and the number of instructions  
>>> executed are also more than the assembly generated. Is it because of  
>>> noise from emulated system calls?
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