Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:01:52 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: arch@freebsd.org, kse@elischer.org Subject: Re: Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread) Message-ID: <20030326.150152.125002089.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030326214421.GF11320@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200303262030.h2QKU6A7089578@harmony.village.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10303261558200.19728-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <20030326214421.GF11320@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:04:42PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
: >
: > Also, in a lot of functions, there are:
: >
: > if (_thread_initial == NULL)
: > _thread_init();
: >
: > I'd like to be able to get rid of these eventually and perhaps have
: > some magical way of getting it called automatically when the library
: > is loaded.
:
: You may be able to piggyback on the C++ static object initialization
: by utilizing _init() and _fini(). I don't think archive is different
: from shared in that respect for C (ie they both don't have what _init()
: provides and have _fini() in terms for atexit()). But it works in both
: cases if you add some C++ related magic (See also the .init and .fini
: ELF sections).
Yes. I was going to make that same point. C++ static object init
always happens, static or dynamic. And has since FreeBSD has
supported ELF...
Warner
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