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Re: `initializer element is not constant' issue

To: Gigi Sullivan <sullivan at sikurezza dot org>
Subject: Re: `initializer element is not constant' issue
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Date: 24 Aug 2001 02:51:46 -0300
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <20010821232307.W484@armageddon.tin.it><orae0sh7rn.fsf@feijoada.lsd.ic.unicamp.br><20010822121558.X484@armageddon.tin.it><20010823170014.A6532@armageddon.tin.it>

On Aug 23, 2001, Gigi Sullivan <sullivan@sikurezza.org> wrote:

>> Is it definetly just impossible?

>    Basically I used __attribute__((constructor)) gcc extension.

Yep, that's the only way to do it in C.  You can switch to C++, that
introduces the ability to do dynamic initialization of global
variables.

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- Re: `initializer element is not constant' issue
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