HP-UX 11 and ld +init

[Kelley Cook]

>> The manual page for "ld" says (at the very bottom)  "HP-UX Release 11i:
>> November 2000".
>> 
>> Do you have any idea in what way your system is different from ours?
>
> I have:
>   HP-UX Release 11.11: December 2001
> 
> Can you try and install the latest HP linker patch? The latest
> recommended patch is PHSS_26560. I looked at the release notes but
> didn't see the introduction of +init, just comments on fixes for it.
> My ld(1) man page documents +init.

Albert, Mark, David, et al.,

According to the HP Patch site, the current patch is PHSS_26560 (Sep 11 2002) 
which superceded these two patches, among others:

PHSS_22535 <http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHSS_22535&context=hpux:800:11:11> (Apr 26 2001):

	- JAGad29876
	    needed support for init / fini style progmas
	    in 32 bit compiler/linker

and 


PHSS_24304 <http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHSS_24304&context=hpux:800:11:11> (Sep 29 2001):

	- JAGad69481: Severity :4
	    Program dumps core with +init/+fini

	- JAGad51282  : Severity : 4
	    32bit: +init and +fini functions invoked in
	    incorrect order

The notes for PHSS_24304 seems to refer to correcting what David's said here:

> There is some wierdness with these options.  The initializers and 
> finalizers execute in opposite order on 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

HTH,
Kelley Cook