From owner-freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 01:34:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E6A106566B for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:34:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.90.76]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6CF38FC08 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.50] by nm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Feb 2012 01:22:04 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.57] by tm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Feb 2012 01:22:04 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp208.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Feb 2012 01:22:04 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 769126.7353.bm@smtp208.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: es_.R8UVM1lyVQ.V_toEZ0rRylP531Xf4S.oPQmldFAgvXP HrBQWfuvMWTOxFvO.1ALkBjVnnkjqS9YzdLBRlZazEjvRaDgJqzPro7eED6f v86VBdv9zD41Lb2XnAfFhibuQg4HY__6F3SRyVEbj1wr0zeMXyzb2.vDp_W9 a2RtRraleQYQdTvgtZ4.RueUrfzJGK3YGAzToTfAsJjrS7EodGHgfJbnJ6.I 9ls4_2V9THsq29bDx1twgzxtcstsV0zespt2mr30qCEiba3NSJoLHPE_RwZ3 LnvClFPN.2nOkVD49R_i0F5Q9YAP4eWlC.tSXuG6H34pnO_FlZVaSNg36yft 1C3qDp2zgHkLjil9vE11j1OQ5oFE4CWDeq0j5WAomyfYcd5MipIL8XSwKZHN vVPJdNHyF7m.8jhRrscbjyRh6jPoOAn10uk_EpvQezStY3BW5jfFIW0FUNYN xFUAadkNfBAqBrAVWhf0NQd8Zlcv5RNk3GUGz9HECXi94ew5oDOHY2LAdyEC 5bUdm_xhVMlne0XxOXi2n1iv4WpnbS_2tQrokA9l0FG1EC9P0MEARo0ZLiSV F4eOsRMGUIdeEvR3.00b174yhLRW.noWYnhjWOqHyvmiPk9uNWRs48yJGJ3z qR66q7RFslg-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf Received: from [192.168.10.101] (pfg@200.118.157.7 with plain) by smtp208.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 2012 17:22:04 -0800 PST Message-ID: <4F3C5A3A.6050107@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:22:02 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111227 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:42:56 +0000 Cc: Subject: DragonFly added support for ELF preinit, init, and fini arrays X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:34:51 -0000 Hello; FYI, this commit in DragonFly seems interesting: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2012-02/msg00146.html It appears like linux had them from a while and some years ago they started using them for C++ in gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg01872.html cheers, Pedro.