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>> Is there something else we can do so that libpthread gets
>> initialized first?  Use _init()?  I'm not sure how to
>> not add that when building static libpthread though (let's
>> kill static libpthread!).
> 
> There is no way other than putting a special case for pthread 
> initialisation into rtld. The C++ constructor trick is implemented via 
> _init anyway so that won't work either. 

I thought that static constructor invocation was deterministic based
on link order.  Does the C++ spec really indicate that the order of
construction can be random?

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Justin