Re: Solaris redux

[Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> I'm not sure it really helps this case though - if the
> C++ static constructors arn't executing however, what about GCJ's class
> registration functions?

Some of them are working.  It's hard to say how many.  Debugging the
constructors is difficult, since I cannot set a breakpoint until they
load, but once they load they've already run :(

I don't really understand the problem yet, nor do I understand how libgcj
guarantees constructors execute in the right order.  What happens if
_Jv_makeUtf8Const runs before _Jv_InitGC, for example?

> Good idea. I'll try that. It also seems conceptually better to have the
> dependencies in libgcj.so itself, rather than relying on the application to
> link them in, given that the application does not use either directly.

It's also more correct.  Symbol versioning won't work otherwise, and I
have a hunch that ld.so needs the dependencies to init libraries in the
correct order.  I've already seen failures in complex applications that
were "corrected" just by changing the linking order.

Jeff