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@@ -22320,6 +22320,12 @@ You are now left on the very first instruction of our tiny executable!
 
 This is analogous to <<baremetal-gdb-step-debug,step debugging baremetal examples>>.
 
+Related:
+
+* https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/258896/what-happens-before-main
+* https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/55767/who-receives-the-value-returned-by-main
+* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53570678/what-happens-before-main-in-c "What happens before main in C++?"
+
 ===== nostartfiles programs
 
 Assembly examples under `nostartfiles` directories can use the standard library, but they don't use the pre-`main` boilerplate and start directly at our explicitly given `_start`: