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This file documents the GNU linker LD
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<h4 class="subsection">3.4.1 Setting the Entry Point</h4>
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<p><a name="index-ENTRY_0028_0040var_007bsymbol_007d_0029-315"></a><a name="index-start-of-execution-316"></a><a name="index-first-instruction-317"></a><a name="index-entry-point-318"></a>The first instruction to execute in a program is called the <dfn>entry
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point</dfn>.  You can use the <code>ENTRY</code> linker script command to set the
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entry point.  The argument is a symbol name:
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<pre class="smallexample">     ENTRY(<var>symbol</var>)
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   <p>There are several ways to set the entry point.  The linker will set the
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entry point by trying each of the following methods in order, and
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stopping when one of them succeeds:
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<li>the <span class="samp">-e</span> <var>entry</var> command-line option;
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<li>the <code>ENTRY(</code><var>symbol</var><code>)</code> command in a linker script;
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<li>the value of the symbol <code>start</code>, if defined;
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<li>the address of the first byte of the <span class="samp">.text</span> section, if present;
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