SPARC: nested static initialization

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 01:35:29PM -0500, Erik Volk wrote:
> The attached small test case calls a global function during static
> initialization in a shared library. After the function address is
> resolved but before the function is actually being called, the global
> initialization from main executable is triggered

So the process of resolving _Z8equals42d (defined in both main and
libshared.so) which you call from _ZL13init_shared_2v, causes the
global init in main to run.  This is likely a glibc ld.so issue, not a
binutils problem.

> and registers used to
> hold function arguments get clobbered.

This also is likely a glibc issue.  You may find it better to ask
about this problem on the glibc list.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM