On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 02:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
not really a fedora question, but i'm interested in a step-by-step description of what happens when one compiles and runs "hello, world". it's sort of a fedora question since i want to relate those steps to the essential fedora packages and where they come into play (gcc, cpp, glibc-devel, libgcc, and so on), related to things like crtbegin, crtend, etc. i'm thinking you get the idea.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but I read this book a few years ago:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/
It's now available under the GNU FDL (although I think a print edition is still available). It covers basic programming using assembler and picks apart classic examples like "Hello World" at the instruction level.
Regards, Bryn.