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Re: crt{i,n}.o

To: wendling at ncsa dot uiuc dot edu
Subject: Re: crt{i,n}.o
From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:09:06 -0700
CC: obrien at FreeBSD dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20001024045816.A84779@dragon.nuxi.com> <jmitqinhmm.fsf@envy.cygnus.com> <20001025002348.C2525@ncsa.uiuc.edu>

> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:23:48 -0500
> From: Bill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
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> This brings my (naive) question: What are the crt*.o files for?

Constructors and destructors (for crt[in].o).  They work together with
gcc to create a single routine that runs all the initialisation and
finalisation routines for shared objects.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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