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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:37:47PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Another mail from David. He'll eventually manage to get the mailing > list handler to accept his machine. > > From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-ID: <15486.41523.514655.290242@napali.hpl.hp.com> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:33:39 -0800 > To: <binutils@sources.redhat.com> > Cc: "David Mosberger" <davidm@hpl.hp.com>, Cary Coutant <cary@cup.hp.com>, > <linux-ia64@linuxia64.org>, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com > Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] problem with unwind info for .init/.fini sections > In-Reply-To: <200202271920.LAA10765@adlmail.cup.hp.com> > References: <200202271920.LAA10765@adlmail.cup.hp.com> > X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.1.1 > Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com > X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >>>>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:19:30 -0800, Cary Coutant <cary@cup.hp.com> said: > > >> I can think of two approaches: > >> ... > >> Anybody else have a better idea or other comments? > > Cary> (3) Use the .init_array and .fini_array sections instead. > > This would be by far the cleanest solution. > > How well is this supported in binutils at the moment? I see some > references to it, but am not sure whether there are any holes in its > support. > > Are there any reasons *not* to switch to .init_array/.fini_array as > the primary init/fini mechanism? Besides fixing the unwind problem, > it seems to me it's generally just a much cleaner solution and should > allow us to get rid of some rather ugly hacks in glibc. > > --david I am not sure if .init_array/.fini_array are supported. It will be nice to add them to binutils. H.J.
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