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/*
    Declare a multiboot header that marks the program as a kernel.
    https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot2/html_node/index.html

    The Multiboot2 header must be contained completely within the first
    32kB of the OS image, and must be 64-bit (8 byte) aligned.
*/
.set MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC, 0xe85250d6 # multiboot2 magic number
.set MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE, 0          # protected mode i386
.set MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_END, 0

.section .multiboot
.align 8
header_start:
    .int MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC
    .int MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE
    .int header_end - header_start
    .int -(MULTIBOOT_HEADER_MAGIC + MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE + (header_end - header_start))

    # TODO tags go here

    .short MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_END
    .short 0
    .int 8
header_end:

/*
    The stack on x86 must be 16-byte aligned according to the System V ABI
    standard and de-facto extensions. The compiler will assume the stack is
    properly aligned and failure to align the stack will result in undefined
    behavior.
*/
.section .stack, "aw", @nobits
.align 16
stack_bottom:
    .skip 16 * 1024
stack_top:

/*
    The linker script specifies _start as the entry point to the kernel and the
    bootloader will jump to this position once the kernel has been loaded.
*/
.section .text
.extern kernel_constructors
.extern kernel_main
.global _start
.type _start, @function
_start:
	mov $stack_top, %esp    # point the stack pointer to the stack

	/*
	This is a good place to initialize crucial processor state before the
	high-level kernel is entered. It's best to minimize the early
	environment where crucial features are offline. Note that the
	processor is not fully initialized yet: Features such as floating
	point instructions and instruction set extensions are not initialized
	yet. The GDT should be loaded here. Paging should be enabled here.
	C++ features such as global constructors and exceptions will require
	runtime support to work as well.
	*/

        pushl %ebx      # push the pointer to the multiboot structure
        pushl %eax      # push the multiboot magic value
        call kernel_constructors

	/*
	Enter the high-level kernel. The ABI requires the stack is 16-byte
	aligned at the time of the call instruction (which afterwards pushes
	the return pointer of size 4 bytes). The stack was originally 16-byte
	aligned above and we've pushed a multiple of 16 bytes to the
	stack since (pushed 0 bytes so far), so the alignment has thus been
	preserved and the call is well defined.
	*/
	call kernel_main

	/*
	If the system has nothing more to do, put the computer into an
	infinite loop. To do that:
	1) Disable interrupts with cli (clear interrupt enable in eflags).
	   They are already disabled by the bootloader, so this is not needed.
	   Mind that you might later enable interrupts and return from
	   kernel_main (which is sort of nonsensical to do).
	2) Wait for the next interrupt to arrive with hlt (halt instruction).
	   Since they are disabled, this will lock up the computer.
	3) Jump to the hlt instruction if it ever wakes up due to a
	   non-maskable interrupt occurring or due to system management mode.
	*/
	cli
hang:	hlt
	jmp hang

/*
Set the size of the _start symbol to the current location '.' minus its start.
This is useful when debugging or when you implement call tracing.
*/
.size _start, . - _start