Greetings,
I am running into a strange problem using a pc-cygwin hosted GCC 3.4.0 cross compiler for the Hitachi sh4 (sh-elf) target.
I have to build an executable image for an embedded system. I order to call global constructors, the program has to call __do_global_ctors_aux() at some point before calling main(). This function (__do_global_ctors_aux) is in crtend.o. Normally, collect2 will generate the code to do all the initialization, call global constructors and call main(). However, I cannot do this since my program has to do some custom hardware initialization before running any user or library code. Hence, what I am trying to do is to call __do_global_ctors_aux() directly from my code after I am done with initialization.
I am, however, running into trouble linking the program.
This works: ld crtbegin.o crtend.o my_program.o -lgcc
This, however, does not work: ld ?oformat=binary crtbegin.o crtend.o my_program.o ?lgcc
crtbegin.o(.text+0x54): In function `___do_global_dtors_aux': : undefined reference to `___deregister_frame_info' crtbegin.o(.text+0xa8): In function `_frame_dummy': : undefined reference to `___register_frame_info' crtbegin.o(.text+0xb8): In function `_frame_dummy': : undefined reference to `__Jv_RegisterClasses'
Is this a bug???
However, when I call __do_global_ctors_aux() from my program, it does not link no matter what. When I instructed the linker to produce map with ?M option, and looked at the file generated, I saw that even so .init, .text, and other sections from crtbegin.o and crtend.o are being linked in, no global symbols such as __do_global_ctors_aux and __do_global_dtors_aux appear in the list.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your time.
Alexander Gdalevich
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