Hello,
I read through Internet that .ctors section is used to hold pointers
to functions with __attribute__ ((constructor)). However when I
compile my program with function with __attribute__ ((constructor)),
then .ctors section is empty and this function is invoked directly
from __libc_csu_init function instead of __do_global_ctors_aux. Was it
changed lately?
Source:
$ cat main.cpp
int x;
void __attribute__ ((constructor)) fun() {
x = 55;
}
int main() {
return 0;
}
$ g++ --version
g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
$ g++ main.cpp -o main
$ objdump -s -j .ctors ./main
./main: file format elf32-i386
Contents of section .ctors:
8049f04 ffffffff 00000000 ........
$ gdb ./main
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.02-0ubuntu2) 7.4-2012.02
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /home/user/test/main...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) break fun
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483b7
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/user/test/main
Breakpoint 1, 0x080483b7 in fun() ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x080483b7 in fun() ()
#1 0x08048422 in __libc_csu_init ()
#2 0x0014c46a in __libc_start_main (main=0x80483c3 <main>, argc=1,
ubp_av=0xbffff224, init=0x80483d0 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x8048440
<__libc_csu_fini>,
rtld_fini=0x11f270 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff21c) at libc-start.c:185
#3 0x08048321 in _start ()
