From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5416 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2011 16:22:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 5397 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2011 16:22:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:22:24 +0000 From: "ian at airs dot com" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug target/46770] Replace .ctors/.dtors with .init_array/.fini_array on targets supporting them X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: target X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: ian at airs dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: ASSIGNED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: hjl.tools at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:22:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg02097.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46770 --- Comment #65 from Ian Lance Taylor 2011-06-23 16:22:05 UTC --- The mainline versions of both GNU ld and gold now put .ctors sections into .init_array sections, and put .dtors sections into .fini_array sections. .ctors/.dtors sections with priorities are sorted correctly with .init_array/.fini_array sections with priorities. The gcc patch is still useful as it will permit eliminating the support for constructors and destructors in crtbegin.o and crtend.o. If we can do that I believe that crtend.o can be removed, and crtbegin.o will only be needed to call _Jv_RegisterClasses.