-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I figured out a stange behavior, when a progamm is linked aginst a lib archive. If there are object files in the archive, which have constrution functions, they do not get called, unless some other symbol of the object file is referenced by the using program. When the linking is done directly with the .o files instead an .a file, the ctors are called. Also the ctors are get called when a symbol of the library is referenced from another program part. So I guess when there is no referencing part to the library during linking, the whole archive gets silently dropped by the linker. I attached a test case for this behavior, which builds 4 demonstration programs: ~ | Residence of i | link | result - ----+----------------+---------+------- vll | lib | lib | ok vlo | lib | objects | ok vpl | program | lib | BAD vpo | program | objects | ok The main problem for me is that I use a tool for generating some autoregistration stuff for a plugin system, which relies on the call to the constructors of a c++ object inside the sources. bye Rudi. PS: Please CC me, I'm not on the list - -- GPG encrypted mails preferred. GPG verschlüsselte Mails bevorzugt. - ---> https://dsred.ccc.de/085/tkuev <---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQERAwUBRCAAbCHRAwx/e+nvAQLVQwfgii8U2XYmraffip3qo8+Ra+BaTVOA4Vt2 54b1mqTKh4UTEu6F36pLxEY8ath1nisNdptGFrz/KI6Kqr/XNK6JhVwMZHbNUC02 17xTv4pr6nNrmlm1JT7rqkYlXaTjt/wnG2af5usXnf+BRwRAsxKN46aMeshDDVPd 3jxjEsoSevPg+g8G/Je3FlJ7NOdIN/QW5jz58re0xZW5YHfEHHylr4CW+nhf5Ri3 k/kP5YNqhvDcMyarj8C35z+89IgE4y5bFYVPfcWitoCt8HkHt3h6JZe7/D5MXy3b OfDnqm/8QAweGs+nAGGAmP5B3vSJDKMkoRQa1nX7OL8IpXMs =qaJ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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