[Bug binutils/14009] gcc 4.7 conversion to init_array breaks users needing control of C++ static initialization order

[igodard at pacbell dot net]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14009

--- Comment #4 from Ivan Godard <igodard at pacbell dot net> 2012-04-22 
22:23:11 UTC ---
Constructor priority is not usable in large projects incorporating third-party
binaries and usinging mixed platform tools. Even without 3rd party code,
priorities require a global view of the entire build world in order to assign a
global numbering scheme, which is bad design. There should have been a local
dependency facility ("I depend on him") instead of absolute numbering.

However, even if that were fixed, priorities are still hopeless: what do you do
when the build includes two different 3rd party libraries that have an
incommensurate priority numbering?

In addition, priorities are a gnu extension, and not everyone uses gnu for
everything. What do you do with code produced by compilers that don't know from
priority?

Please don't mark this as fixed. It ain't.

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