Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:08:27 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: kaleb@ics.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dynamic libraries loading Message-ID: <199812280508.VAA08288@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <36850172.41C67EA6@ics.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812251142440.319-100000@gizmo.kyrnet.kg>
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In article <36850172.41C67EA6@ics.com>,
Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kaleb@ics.com> wrote:
>
> Note however that the ELF specification says that these functions should
> be called .init() and .fini().
Where does it say that? I'm quite familiar with the SVR4 ABI
specification (which _is_ the ELF spec). It says nothing of the sort,
to my knowledge.
> Looking at the sources in /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/, I see that rtld
> relies on the DT_INIT and DT_FINI tags to find the functions in the
> shared lib.
Right. And *that's* what the ELF specification says to do.
John
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