Re: C++ static constructors in libltdl modules [[Was Re: revised patch for glib compilation]]

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 20, 2001, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> anyways, in the case such code arrives, it may
>> only be called after successfull g_module_init(). that means for libtool,
>> there must be ways to supress automatic constructor initialization at
>> loading time and do them on demand later on.

> Yikes!  I'm Cc:ing the libtool list to record this information for
> posterity, and incase any of the KDE folks that lurk here know
> better than I do :-)

Instead of suppressing automatic constructors, we may just have a
dynamic constructor that sets some global variable to 1, which we test
in module_init() to decide whether dynamic constructors have already
been run.

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