More on entry point option for ld

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:28:05PM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> And what if you want to do initialization of a shared library
> *after* initialization of libc and libstdc++ but *before*
> any constructor of global objects of other libraries (or the
> main program) are called?

You're screwed.  Shared library initialization happens *before*
any code from the application is run at all.

You can get sort of close with an LD_PRELOAD library that runs
your initialization code from a constructor.


r~