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

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Thu Nov 7 18:20:00 GMT 2002


> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:58:52PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > That seems like a reasonable thing to do, though it's unfortunate it means
> > changing all the platforms' start.S files.  For preinit_array+init_array,
> > start.S could just contain the code in the .init section, no?  But probably
> > it is better to write generic _init/_fini replacements in C.
> 
> I think the best solution is to write
> 
> 	static void
> 	do_all_init(void)
> 	{
> 	  // Loop over .preinit_array
> 	  // Loop over .init_array
> 	  _init ();
> 	}
> 
> or whatever the proper ordering is, and then pass this
> new function to __libc_start_main.

Yup, that's the C I was talking about.



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