On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 07:14 +0200, Steve Graegert wrote: > On 10/23/07, vibi <vibi_sreenivasan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > "The init code used to set up the main program doesn't care about threads, > > > > because it assumes that they won't be used anyway." > > > > when is init code linked to the program ,during the compile time or > > during the run time? > > It's being added by the linker at compile time. > > \Steve the application you gave earlier is linked without any knowledge of multi-threading so > cc test.c > ./a.out would fail but you also said > cc test.c > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpthread.so ./a.out will not fail in both the cases same init code is added at compile time and you also said that init code determines whether a program is multi-threaded. So i am a little bit confused because how at run time the init code is changed. regards vibi sreenivasan > > Steve Grägert > DigitalEther.de > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
