Re: constructors not called in dynamic object, Linux only.

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

James Kanze <kanze@none> writes:

> Does anyone know what options are necessary for static
> initializers in a dynamic object to be correctly executed under
> Linux.

Compiling with '-fPIC' and linking with '-shared' has always sufficed
for me.

> The g++ documentation for -shared has a footnote "On some
> systems, gcc -shared needs to build supplementary stub code for
> constructors to work. ...
> Presumable, Linux is one of the cases where you need some
> special option to make g++ generate these stubs

No, Linux/ELF does *not* need to generate any such stubs.
They are only needed on platforms which do not support .init/.fini
sections.

Either you are using some extremely weird (or old) Linux environment,
or there is something else going on which you didn't tell us about.

As Larry said, post a minimal test case, and do tell us what Linux,
and what versions of g++ and binutils you are using.

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