crt{i,n}.o

[Geoff Keating]

> 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.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>