shared libraries & exceptions

[Nathan Myers]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:25:59PM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:11:51 -0800
> Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org> wrote:
> 
> >... people often want to call exported C functions in C++ libraries 
> >from (what are nominally) C programs.  Is there any supported way to 
> >explicitly initialize the g++ runtime machinery, in gcc-2 and/or in 
> >gcc-3, e.g. by calling some reserved identifier at library-load time?  
> >(I wouldn't expect the solution to be the same for gcc-2 and gcc-3.)
> 
> You're a little vague on the exact problem description, or what you are
> trying to do.

I'm talking about plugins written in C++.  No sensible person expects 
to throw an exception out of a plugin, but everyone who writes a C++ 
plugin would like to wrap each C entry point in a try block.  That 
ought to work, except who has initialized the exception machinery to 
make it work right?  Not _main(), it was never run.

This isn't academic.  I'm seeing segfaults during a throw of bad_alloc 
in gcc-2.x, and know of no reason to think gcc-3 will necessarily do 
any better.

So the question is, is there any (non-portable!) entry point that 
can be called by the C code, before or after the dlopen, that will 
ensure proper initialization of the exception apparatus?

Nathan Myers
ncm-nospam@cantrip.org