* William Tambe:
> I would like for GCC to automatically generate instructions to
> initialize global variables without having to manually create a
> function with attribute((constructor)) to initialize those global
> variables. In the example below from my previous email, GCC should
> automatically generate instructions to initialize myglobal just like
> it generates instructions to initialize mylocal; except those
> instructions to initialize myglobal are to be generated within the
> crti.S _init function:
>
> void myfunc (void) {}
> void *myglobal = myfunc;
> void main (void) {
> void *mylocal = myfunc;
> }
I believe this would be best implemented in the link editor. It sees
the relocations and can generate the appropriate code. However, for
position-indepedent code, usually a table-based approach with a
minimal loader is typically used.
