dlopen() does not call static constructors on HP-UX

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Thu Dec 12 12:26:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> Harri Pasanen writes:

Harri> It is possible to make the above process fully automatic, but it 
Harri> requires first building the shared lib, looking if the _GLOBAL__FI_* 
Harri> symbol is present and then rebuilding it.

Harri> So all this is done without any modifications to gcc itself.   Can you 
Harri> see any pitfalls with my approach?   I'll let you know if I run into 
Harri> any problems.

	You do not need to build the library twice.  GCC's collect2 knows
the name of the function.  I would suggest looking at how I enabled
something similar in collect2.c for AIX.  Look for LD_INIT_SWITCH.

David



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