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I’m just wondering how you create a freestanding program in C++?
Edit: By freestanding I mean a program that doesn’t run in a hosted envrioment (eg. OS). I want my program to be the first program the computer loads, instead of the OS.
Have a look at this article:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/boot-loader.aspx
You would need a little assembly start-up code to get you as far as main() but then you could write the rest in C++. You’d have to write your own heap manager (new/delete) if you wanted to create objects at runtime and your own scheduler if you wanted more than one thread.