1/* Startup code for Nios II
2 Copyright (C) 1995-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4
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34 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
35
36/* This is the canonical entry point, usually the first thing in the text
37 segment.
38
39 Note that the code in the .init section has already been run.
40 This includes _init and _libc_init
41
42 The stack pointer, sp, will point to the argument count on the stack.
43 The initial state of the stack when a userspace process is started is:
44
45 Purpose Start Address Length
46 Unspecified High Addresses
47 Referenced strings, etc. Varies
48 Unspecified
49 Null auxilliary vector entry 4bytes
50 Auxilliary vector entries 8bytes each
51 NULL terminator for envp 4bytes
52 Environment pointers sp+8+4*argc 4bytes each
53 NULL terminator for argv sp+4+4*argc 4bytes
54 Argument pointers sp+4 4bytes each
55 Argument count sp 4bytes
56 Unspecified Low Addresses
57
58 If the application should register a destructor function with atexit,
59 the pointer will be placed in r4. Otherwise r4 will be zero.
60
61 The contents of all other registers are unspecified. User code should
62 set fp to zero to mark the end of the frame chain.
63
64 The auxilliary vector is a series of pairs of 32-bit tag and 32-bit
65 value, terminated by an AT_NULL tag.
66*/
67
68 .text
69 .globl _start
70 .type _start,%function
71_start:
72 /* Set up the global pointer. */
73 movhi gp, %hiadj(_gp)
74 addi gp, gp, %lo(_gp)
75
76 /* Save the stack pointer. */
77 mov r2, sp
78
79 /* Create room on the stack for the fini, rtld_fini and stack_end args
80 to __libc_start_main. */
81 subi sp, sp, 12
82
83 /* Push stack_end */
84 stw r2, 8(sp)
85
86 /* Push rtld_fini */
87 stw r4, 4(sp)
88
89 /* Set up the GOT pointer. */
90 nextpc r22
911: movhi r2, %hiadj(_gp_got - 1b)
92 addi r2, r2, %lo(_gp_got - 1b)
93 add r22, r22, r2
94
95 /* Used to be fini. */
96 stw zero, 0(sp)
97
98 /* Used to be init. */
99 mov r7, zero
100
101 /* r6 == argv */
102 addi r6, sp, 16
103
104 /* r5 == argc */
105 ldw r5, 12(sp)
106
107 /* r4 == main */
108 movhi r4, %call_hiadj(main)
109 addi r4, r4, %call_lo(main)
110 add r4, r4, r22
111 ldw r4, 0(r4)
112
113 /* fp == 0 */
114 mov fp, zero
115
116 /* __libc_start_main (main, argc, argv, init, fini, rtld_fini,
117 stack_end) */
118
119 /* Let the libc call main and exit with its return code. */
120 movhi r2, %call_hiadj(__libc_start_main)
121 addi r2, r2, %call_lo(__libc_start_main)
122 add r2, r2, r22
123 ldw r2, 0(r2)
124 callr r2
125
126 /* should never get here....*/
127 movhi r2, %call_hiadj(abort)
128 addi r2, r2, %call_lo(abort)
129 add r2, r2, r22
130 ldw r2, 0(r2)
131 callr r2
132
133/* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data. */
134 .data
135 .globl __data_start
136__data_start:
137 .long 0
138 .weak data_start
139 data_start = __data_start
140

source code of glibc/sysdeps/nios2/start.S