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Date:      27 Dec 1998 09:49:42 -0800
From:      Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org
Subject:   Re: ld (bfd): wrong function names for ELF shared library  DT_{INIT,FINI}
Message-ID:  <r2g1a1h3ux.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>
In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:48:49 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812271747560.383-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes:

> > What is named ".init" and ".fini" are the **section** where these
> > functions are placed in.  This are not the function names.  In fact,
> > the function names are not specified at all.  _init and _fini come
> > from folklore (speek, the first ELF implementations).
> 
> I haven't looked at the i386 code but the alpha _init() and _fini() are
> already in the correct sections.

I haven't said anything is wrong.  In fact, everything is fine
(function names, sections names).  The original report is bogus.

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