[Bug target/54791] AIX-only: Constructors are not called in main program.

["adivilceanu at yahoo dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54791

--- Comment #8 from Adi <adivilceanu at yahoo dot com> 2012-11-03 19:14:41 UTC ---
Thank you for your response. (Sorry for the repeated emails. I did it because I
got delivery failures on the first 4 mails.)

So just to be 100% sure on this: If I want to be sure all my constructors are
called I should not have any of them inlined. Correct ?
What about if I have a constructor body/implementation inside a class
declaration ? Does the compiler inline that as well? I guess it might.


So how do you see this case. Is it not a bug? I mean I am expecting my
constructors to be called and they are not.
Do you know a easy way to solve this without modifying all my constructors ?
(any compiler options perhaps, ..using __attribute__((constructor)) ) ?



PS: If I want to send you an attachment in a mail what format should it be ?
txt, doc ? I got some delivery failures,... that's why I am asking.



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 From: dje at gcc dot gnu.org <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: adivilceanu@yahoo.com 
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 3:48 PM
Subject: [Bug target/54791] AIX-only: Constructors are not called in main
program.


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54791

--- Comment #7 from David Edelsohn <dje at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-11-03 13:48:46
UTC ---
The New York area has experienced a major natural disaster. I am located near
NYC. GCC support is provided by volunteers.  Repeatedly resending your message
will not elicit a faster response.

AIX uses the XCOFF file format, not ELF. The object files do not contain .ctor
or .init sections to define constructors. The GCC collect2 wrapper scans object
files for constructors and creates a function to call them.  If the
constructors are inlined, the symbols might not appear when the object files
are scanned, preventing them from being included in the list of constructors to
call.