Problem with shared libraries, exceptions, and global constructors

[Marc Espie]

In article <20030819060624.GA20398@redhat.com> you write:
>> Of course the C++ standard doesn't say anything about dynamic
>> linking, but it is undesirable for one feature (mutual recursion)
>> to interfere with another (dynamic linking).
>
>I'm sorry if ELF dynamic linking was not designed with your
>requirements in mind.

Recently, I've began doubting that, in fact, ELF dynamic linking was actually
designed for anything.  Looks more like historical artefacts.