From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 27 09:54:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16405 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 09:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.cygnus.com [205.180.230.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16399 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 09:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drepper@cygnus.com) Received: from happy.cygnus.com (happy.cygnus.com [205.180.230.206]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03306; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 09:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (drepper@localhost) by happy.cygnus.com (8.8.7/8.6.4) id JAA27711; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 09:49:42 -0800 To: Doug Rabson Cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org Subject: Re: ld (bfd): wrong function names for ELF shared library DT_{INIT,FINI} References: Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 27 Dec 1998 09:49:42 -0800 In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:48:49 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Rabson 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. -- ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message