Re: use crtbegin/crtend for powerpc-eabi

[Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 04:15:44PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> 
> I am just about to commit the attached.  What it mostly does is 
> now use a multilibbed crtbegin/crtend for powerpc-eabi, replacing
> the previous eabi-ctors.c.
> 
> The main new feature is that we now use the .init and .fini sections,
> just like a normal ELF port.  The main not-yet-done feature is calling
> .init and .fini from crt0 (.init now gets called from eabi.S, which is
> probably not as good), but that's a more major change.
> 
> Another benefit of this is that the constructor-priority stuff now
> works with the default ldscript.

Just to be sure -- did you compile and test code that was using constructors
and destructors compiled with the old compiler works correctly?  I would
imagine both eabi and ppc linux people would get annoyed if this broke.

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