[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>] problem with unwind info for .init/.fini sections

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:43:07PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>   HJ> I believe glibc is ok. The problem is binutils. I didn't see any
>   HJ> supports for DT_INIT_ARRAY, DT_FINI_ARRAY. DT_INIT_ARRAYSZ,
>   HJ> DT_FINI_ARRAYSZ, DT_PREINIT_ARRAY nor DT_PREINIT_ARRAYSZ.
> 
> Shouldn't this be easy straight-forward to add?

Yes, it should.  I think there's even some code for this 
for ia64-hpux in the tree already.

> I guess the other component that needs updating is gcc (at least the
> ia64 versions of crtbegin.asm and crtend.asm would need that).  I'd be
> happy to work on this.

Should be easy too, except for the bit to figure out whether or
not support for this exists in ld.so.


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