Main in Lib

[Bharathi S]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, John Love-Jensen wrote:

> libfoo.so is a shared object library.  
> libfoo.a is an archive library.  

What is need to create this two type of lib formats ?

How to differentiate DSO and SSO ? 
( .so = DSO and .a = SSO  Correct ? )

Objdump libfoo.so gave a start address. If it is ordinary program,
the start address refer to main function. In lib start add refer 
to what ?

what is the use of _fini ,  _init , fini_dummy etc ?

Thanks,
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