Hello, I'm trying to understand how address space is initialized for programs compiled with gcc using glibc on linux ia32. Specifically, how do the heap and stack get set up, and where do they reside in address space? Is it glibc that's responsible for doing this, or the kernel, or some code added by gcc that executes before main() ? Is thread local storage set up at the same time, and how does TLS currently work on Linux anyway? I know that at least some of the memory layout comes from the linker (and I've read through linker scripts), but where's the code that makes this happen? So I guess I'm asking you wise folks to help me fill in the question marks- 1. fork() and exec() called in kernel; address space for process is created 2. ??? 3. main() Pointers to documentation are also quite welcome. I've spent hours Googling this stuff, but many hits are out-dated or too high-level, or so general that I can't figure out what is happening on this particular architecture. Thanks very much -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-does-process-initialization-work--tp21482690p21482690.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
