>> But the presence of the `crti.asm` source file >> (`gcc-4.5.0/gcc/config/arm/crti.asm`) is misleading me. Why is >> it there? Is it for bare metal targets (sans glibc & Linux)? > > Right: it's only for the arm-elf target. Ahh ... that's making some sense. I'll start with an arm-elf target and see where I can get too. But the question is still begging: why then, when the build is configured with `target=arm-linux` the linker looks for the `crti.o` file in the `gcc-4.5.0/gcc/` build directory?
