Reading command line args from assmebly

[Anand Android]

Hi All,
I have written one sample assmebly and c code which reads command line args
and displays .

find the source files as attachments.

expected output is ,
        $ ./a.out
           Inside __linker_init argc = 1
           Inside __linker_init argv[0] = ./a.out
           Segmentation fault [Seg fault Never mind]

if i statically link startx86.S  & linker.c  on x86 AND statrt_ppc.S &
linker.c on PS3,i'll get SEGV fault on both system. But on PS3, inside
'_start' function if i verify the contents of 'r1[stack pointer]' and '(Char
*) *(r1 + 4)'  in GDB i get '1' and '~/a.out' respectively .But once 'r1'
moved to r3[holds the 1st arg of the function] & passed as argument to
__linker_init ,inside the function '*elfdata' points '1' but (char *)
*(elfdata + 1) points to some junk string. some thing like this
"|c\033x|i\003�N\200\004 \224!��|\b\002�\220\001".
find the GDB log file of PS3.

if i link them without statically,i'll get the correct output on x86 .i.e

        $ ./a.out
           Inside __linker_init argc = 1
           Inside __linker_init argv[0] = ./a.out
           Segmentation fault [Seg fault Never mind]

but  on ps3 i get this,
        $ ./a.out
           Inside __linker_init argc = 0
           Inside __linker_init argv[0] = |c|i�N� �!����
           Segmentation fault
Why am i getting strange characters instead of './a.out' and y 'argc' having
'zero'  ?

Why is this two different outputs for static linking and dynamic linking ?

-Anand
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This GDB was configured as "powerpc-linux-gnu"...                            
(gdb) b _start
Breakpoint 1 at 0x100000e4: file start.S, line 35.
(gdb) r                                           
Starting program: /home/dayananda/junks/power/a.out

Breakpoint 1, _start () at start.S:37
37              bl      __linker_init
Current language:  auto; currently asm
(gdb) s                               
__linker_init (elfdata=0x0) at linker.c:5
5        {                               
Current language:  auto; currently c     
(gdb) i r
r0             0x0      0
r1             0xff9a1820       4288288800
r2             0x0      0
r3             0xff9a1820       4288288800
r4             0x0      0
r5             0x0      0
r6             0x0      0
r7             0x0      0
r8             0x0      0
r9             0x0      0
r10            0x0      0
r11            0x0      0
r12            0x0      0
r13            0x0      0
r14            0x0      0
r15            0x0      0
r16            0x0      0
r17            0x0      0
r18            0x0      0
r19            0x0      0
r20            0x0      0
r21            0x0      0
r22            0x0      0
r23            0x0      0
r24            0x0      0
r25            0x0      0
r26            0x0      0
r27            0x0      0
r28            0x0      0
r29            0x0      0
r30            0x0      0
r31            0x0      0
pc             0x100000f4       268435700
msr            0x4010c032       1074839602
cr             0x0      0
lr             0x100000e8       268435688
ctr            0x0      0
xer            0x0      0
(gdb) p *(0xff9a1820)
$1 = 1
(gdb) p *(0xff9a1820+4)
$2 = -6678169
(gdb) p (char *)*(0xff9a1820+4)
$3 = 0xff9a1967 "/home/dayananda/junks/power/a.out"
(gdb) s
7               int argc = (int) *elfdata;
(gdb) s
8               char **argv = (char**) (elfdata + 1);
(gdb) p elfdata
$4 = (unsigned int **) 0xff9a1820
(gdb) p *elfdata
$5 = (unsigned int *) 0x1
(gdb) p *(elfdata + 1)
$6 = (unsigned int *) 0x100000e8
(gdb) p (char *)*(elfdata + 1)
$7 = 0x100000e8 "|c\033x|i\003�N\200\004 \224!��|\b\002�\220\001"

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