The world's leading source for technical x86 processor information. How main() is executed on Linux LG #84. Starting The question is simple: how does linux execute my main()?
Through this document, I'll use the following simple C program to illustrate how it works. It's called "simple.c" main(){ return(0);} The Intel 8086 / 8088/ 80186 / 80286 / 80386 / 80486 Instruction Set. 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals.