On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 04:47, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote: > It's for backward compatibility, to be able to run old binaries. No, it's not. soinit and sofini are only used when building glibc. If a new gcc then glibc should be able to use init_arrays. If not, *that's* what has to be changed.