Unexpected behavior regarding linking sections

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:28 AM Felix von Leitner
<felix-binutils@fefe.de> wrote:
>
> This is about my libc handling code for ctors and dtors.
> In the startup code, I do this:
>
>   .section .ctors,"aw"
>   .global __CTOR_LIST__
>   __CTOR_LIST__:
>
>   .section .dtors,"aw"
>   .global __DTOR_LIST__
>   __DTOR_LIST__:
>
> Then, after all the other code, I do this:
>
>   .section .ctors,"aw"
>   .global __CTOR_END__
>   __CTOR_END__:
>
>   .section .dtors,"aw"
>   .global __DTOR_END__
>   __DTOR_END__:
>
> And the handling code looks like this:
>
>   funcptr* f;
>   funcptr* m=__CTOR_END__<__DTOR_LIST__ ? __CTOR_END__ : __DTOR_LIST__;
>   for (f=__CTOR_LIST__; f<m; ++f) (*f)();
>

You should drop dtors/ctors and use init_array/fini_array instead.


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H.J.