* Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/24/2011 10:50 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - C constructors have random limitations like apparently not being executed if > > the constructor is linked into a .a static library. > > Ah, forgot about this. Given _why_ this happens (for static libraries, the > linker omits object modules that are not required to fulfill undefined > references in previous objects), I'd be surprised if explicit section tricks > do not have the same limitation. [...] Since we create an actual array (data) and iterate it the worst i can imagine is the linker dropping those sections - in which case the build will fail and we are alerted to the problem. With ((constructor)) the program will misbehave silently - not good. > [...] After all the constructor attribute is only syntactic sugar for section > tricks. Yeah but not just syntactic sugar but also code built into glibc to execute them at some point before main(). And this last bit really matters as well. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
