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The Journey Before main()


> The Journey Before main()_ October 25, 2025 · Amit Prasad A while back, I worked on a RISC-V-based userspace simulator for fun. In doing so, taught myself a lot more than I wanted to know about what happens in-between when the Kernel is asked to run a program, and when the first line of our program’s main function is actually executed.

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