Missing crt0.o file with cross-i386 gcc

Question

I can't find out why crt0.o or crt1.o are not provided for i386 targets by newlib as it is the case for powerpc, arm, etc. targets.

ld requires it (and so do I to call static constructors).

Answer 1

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