Problem with shared libraries, exceptions, and global constructors

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Gabriel Dos Reis writes:


Gabriel> Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
Gabriel> | On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:21:24PM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
Gabriel> | > I've been staring at this for a while, and I can't see a good way to fix
Gabriel> | > this.  Suggestions?
Gabriel> | 
Gabriel> | Build libbug1 correctly.  That is, display its dependency on libbug2:
Gabriel> | 
Gabriel> | 	g++ -fpic -shared bug2.cc  -o libbug2.so
Gabriel> | 	g++ -fpic -shared bug1.cc ./libbug2.so  -o libbug1.so
Gabriel> | 
Gabriel> | That will change the DAG such that initialization happens in the
Gabriel> | proper order.

Gabriel> Pardon the question: It is  a feature?  I'm pretty sure I'm seen many
Gabriel> bug reports where the symptoms described by Bernd were reported.
Gabriel> What I'm saying is that, in the small your advice it quite
Gabriel> straightforward to follow.  For a large project however, I think that
Gabriel> quickly gets out of hand.  Isn't there anything that can be done?

Gabriel> -- Gaby