[ECOS] Doubts regarding atexit()

[Richard Rauch]

Hello,

I have doubts/questions regarding atexit().

Actually eCos comes with an own atexit handler within ISO C library support.

But I am not sure, if this implementation is really linked instead of standard gcc implementation.

I tested with a gnu toolchain, which has no atexit implementation in his libgcc.a library.

When I am generating eCos and the eCos tests, I get the linker error messages:

... /lib\extras.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0':
... /ecos/packages/io/fileio/current/src/misc.cxx:103: undefined reference to `__aeabi_atexit'

My linker options already includes "-nostdlib", bit this seems not to be sufficient for atexit issue.

When I add compiler option "-fno-use-cxa-atexit", everything will be generated.

Who could explain, how this works in detail. Seems there are different definitions of atexit in libraries and in eCos. How I can ensure, that the right one is used.
A further question: the compiler or linker is replacing somehow the atexit calls with calls to __aeabi_atexit. How this is working.

Many Thanks

Richard



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