From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:34:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject:         PR ld/10864
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    PR ld/10864
        * ld.texinfo (Entry Point): Mention that the default entry symbol
        is not 'start' on some targets.
---

diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index b2c9b1008c0..4043ee7e6b2 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-11-10  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	PR ld/10864
+	* ld.texinfo (Entry Point): Mention that the default entry symbol
+	is not 'start' on some targets.
+
 2009-11-06  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	PR ld/10912
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index 1805a5142ba..8ac4c7d7d1f 100644
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -2921,7 +2921,9 @@ the @samp{-e} @var{entry} command-line option;
 @item
 the @code{ENTRY(@var{symbol})} command in a linker script;
 @item
-the value of the symbol @code{start}, if defined;
+the value of a target specific symbol, if it is defined;  For many
+targets this is @code{start}, but PE and BeOS based systems for example
+check a list of possible entry symbols, matching the first one found.
 @item
 the address of the first byte of the @samp{.text} section, if present;
 @item