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From: Brian Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>
Subject: Re: ld error
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 04:26:29 -0700 (PDT)
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> I don't think so, because the given assembly program has a main
> function; and the tutorial has given a step by step procedure to
> produce the executable.  
> 
> Inspite of my above statement, I am not very sure of the given
> assembly program being complete, basically because it doesn't work!
> But it does have a main function.

Instead of having to build the link line yourself, you could just let
gcc do it for you. That is, instead of:

    ld -m elf_i386 -static average.o /usr/lib/crtn.o /foo/bar/baz blahblahblah

use:

    gcc -static average.o

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