Re: MPE Port

[Mark Klein <mklein@dis.com>]

At 01:42 AM 9/8/99 -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>Instead use the collect method.  It works by scanning your executable for
>symbols with magic names.  It collects them together in a list and __main
>will arrange for each of the special functions to be called before your
>program gets started.
>
>It uses the same mechanism that global ctors/dtors for C++ uses.

I've rewritten the trap initialization as __attribute__ ((constructor)).

I still run into the same issue (which is substantially the same as
what faces the __gcc_plt_call) ... if it isn't referenced from the
program, it won't get bound in for collect to find it. While I chose
to do it in DO_GLOBAL_CTORS_BODY, I could do the same asm stuff in
either DO_GLOBAL_CTORS_BODY or DO_GLOBAL_DTORS_BODY as is done for
_gcc_plt_call. I'm going to choose the latter, because I am already
redefining it to delete the __gcc_plt_call reference. Is that
acceptable? Because of MPE's late binding, I don't see another way.

Regards,



M.
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