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ld: creating a dynamically linked executable ...


Still a newbie. Please be kind. Hope the question is clear.

I have a simple (GAS syntax) assembly program [1] which calls a C
function (printf) defined in standard C library. Aren't these the
right commands to create the executable?

1) as -g -o use-of-lib.o use-of-lib.s
2) ld -o use-of-lib use-of-lib.o -lc

I pass -lc to ld because I think that printf and exit functions are
defined in libc.so; and man ld shows that libc.so would be searched
for the function definitions. Strange thing is that above sequence of
commands produces no error and yet, the created executable
(use-of-lib) behaves weirdly [2] on my shell. This is baffling.

What am I missing?

Regards,
Kedar

uname -a for the computer:
Linux ubuntu-guest 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27
17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[1] assembly program name: use-of-lib.s

.section .data
hw:
  .ascii "hello world\n\0"
.section .text
.global _start
_start:
  pushl $hw
  call printf
  pushl $0
  call exit

[2]: weird behavior
$> as -g -o use-of-lib.o use-of-lib.s
$> ld -o use-of-lib use-of-lib.o -lc
$> ./use-of-lib
zsh: no such file or directory: ./use-of-lib


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