Re: patch to make init_array work (3nd version)

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:09:58 -0800, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:

  HJ> I am not sure how this approach will work. If I get it right,
  HJ> __libc_do_init_calls and __libc_do_fini_calls are defined in
  HJ> executables. But they are only available when executables are
  HJ> linked against with the new glibc. For the existing executables,
  HJ> there are no __libc_do_init_calls nor __libc_do_fini_calls. That
  HJ> is why my original solution has

Old executables directly pass _init() and _fini() to
__libc_start_main, so they'll work normally.  Of course, the
preinit_array, init_array, and fini_array in such executables won't be
executed either, but since this support is new, those binaries
presumably don't have such sections.  Also, ld.so should take care of
executing init_array and fini_array for the shared objects that the
executable depends on, so I think everything should be fine.

	--david