What's the process behind loading and executing a file?
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ThisMayWork
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What's the process behind loading and executing a file?
My kernel main is running, I am happily printing messages on the screen using VGA, I have a filesystem, now it's time to load and execute my first program. I took care of the actual loading, but I have no idea where to load it and how to execute it. Do I just call it's main and cross my fingers hopping that it'll work? Also, if it's written in C instead of assembly, how do I expose my printf header to it? (I don't want to build an OS specific toolchain, I only want a hacky method to do it for now).
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ThisMayWork
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Re: What's the process behind loading and executing a file?
Godsend, thank you Combuster.
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Re: What's the process behind loading and executing a file?
Starting to program in userspace is actually the exactly right time to build one. It is not as much effort as it looks, and you will love it.ThisMayWork wrote:(I don't want to build an OS specific toolchain, I only want a hacky method to do it for now).
