Solaris Global Constructor Bug

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  5, 1999, Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:06:46 -0600, dholcomb@amlibs.com wrote:
>> There is an apparent "bug" in the code generated for Solaris
>> platforms.  When the following program (a simple shared-library test
>> program) is compiled with the shared library being compiled with the
>> "-nostdlib" switch, global constructors in the shared library are NOT
>> being called when the library is (implicitly) being opened.  If the
>> "-nostdlib" compiler switch is removed from the compilation of the
>> shared library, global constructors begin to work as expected.

> It seems that on Solaris, -nostdlib implies -nostartfiles.

In fact, -nostdlib is the same as -nostartfiles and -nodefaultlibs,
but the latter options were introduced in recent releases of gcc (I'm
not sure whether it was 2.7 or 2.8)

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