Re: Thread safety of coroutine-sigaltstack

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 01/25/21 23:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 25/01/21 23:15, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>
>> - How does this case differ from the registration of types? type_init()
>> is a constructor function, and it generally ends up adding some
>> structures with function pointers (I reckon) via type_table_add(). The
>> main executable doesn't call into the device code directly -- only the
>> constructor function calls another function from the same module. The
>> main executable only goes through the registered type interfaces. How
>> does the linker know in that case to preserve the whole object?
> 
> We use either link_whole or extract_objects() for libraries that have
> type-registering constructors.

Thanks! The meson reference manual explains these.

Laszlo