patch to make init_array work (2nd version; resend)

David Mosberger davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Thu Nov 7 14:10:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:58:52 -0800, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> said:

  Roland> That seems like a reasonable thing to do, though it's
  Roland> unfortunate it means changing all the platforms' start.S
  Roland> files.

Yes.

  Roland> For preinit_array+init_array, start.S could just contain the
  Roland> code in the .init section, no?

Perhaps, but it would defeat the whole purpose of switching to
init_array (see my previous mail about why any call in .init/.fini
causes incorrect unwind info).

	--david



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