collect2 on AIX drags too many objects from archives ?

[Olivier Hainque]

Mike Stump wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:36 AM, Olivier Hainque wrote:
> >  /* The AIX linker will discard static constructors in object files  
> >     if nothing else in the file is referenced [...] */
 
> Darwin has this same sort of issue and solves it by not wiring up  
> ctors/dtors for all these things but instead have a separate  
> convention to register/unregister the tables, both for the statically  
> linked things, dlopen type things and shared library type things.   

> Essentially, upon load, they wonder symbol tables (ok, actually the  
> section table) and register based upon what they find.  See crt1.o  
> (Csu/crt.c) and keymgr/keymgr.c for additional hints.

 Will have a look, thanks for the pointer.