LD, section start option doesn't work?

[0000]

Hi,

I just want to set the .text segment address through ld's option (--section-start .text=org).
Nevertheless, after linking, the .text segment start at an other address.

My code is similar to:

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[...]
.text
.global _start
_start:
    xor eax,eax
    inc eax
    int 0x80

Assembling, linking:

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as -o test.o test.s
ld --section-start .text=0x08048000 --oformat binary -o test test.o

_start isn't located at 0x08048000 but at 0x080480da.
So, what is wrong ?

[gerryg400]

Disassemble/inspect the output and look what is in the first 0xda bytes. Is it startup code ? Junk ?

Isn't the syntax

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ld --section-start=.text=0x08048000 --oformat binary -o test test.o

i.e. 2 equal signs ?

[0000]

Disassemble/inspect the output and look what is in the first 0xda bytes. Is it startup code ? Junk ?

It startup with code:

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$ hexdump -Cn 9 -s 218 load-sym  
000000da  31 c0 40 cd 80 74 65 0d  07                       |1À@Í.te..|

We can find the xor instruction at the first byte.
It's really difficult to disassemble/debug, because I'm writing his own elf header and use some tricks
to reduce his size.

[gerryg400]

I mean 'what is at the beginning of the file'?