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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ld
Message-ID: <9550@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Jan 89 08:54:02 GMT
References: <3505@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3505@mipos3.intel.com> rajeevc@mipos2.intel.com (Rajeev Chandrasekhar) writes:
>When using ld to create an executable with only one object
>with no external calls, I get an segmentation fault.

Perhaps you forgot to perform the runtime startup actions correctly?
Basically if you're building code to run as a user process you should
use "cc" to link the code instead of trying to use "ld" directly.
That way all the environmental details will be taken care of automatically.