Re: _init in shared libraries?

[Peter Eisentraut]

Bruce Korb writes:

> Is there supposed to be a way to tell GCC/collect2/ld to
> let me supply my own _init and _fini routines?

ld -init NAME -fini NAME

> Or, am I required to have a pre-determined external name that I must
> reference?  If so, what is the point of _init? *sigh*.

Actually, if you are using GCC then you probably should use
__attribute__((constructor)) and __attribute__((destructor)).  Those might
even work on non-ELF system.

> P.S.  I did a ``gcc -v'', grabbed the collect2 invocation
> and deleted the file containing the unwanted externals.
> Using that invocation resulted in a perfectly working
> shared library with my own _init routine.  Too clumsy for
> real use, tho.

I think what you were trying to do (i.e., supplying own _init) once worked
with stock GCC, but somehow it doesn't anymore.

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