On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 08:00:11PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org> writes:
>
> > The constructors you are worried about are all executed by (*init)().
> > We control the code executed by __libc_init_first, and in the current source
> > base none of it calls atexit. Therefore, we can be absolutely certain that
> > the above __internal_atexit calls are safe.
>
> That's not true for shared objects. The constructors of the shared
> objects involved are called before __libc_start_main is reached.
>From _dl_open_worker? Is there a reason why we couldn't postpone all of that
until we hit (*init)()?
In any case, this is not a problem for statically linked binaries which is
the main place that part of the patch is interesting. You could make it be
#ifdef PIC ? atexit : __internal_atexit.
zw
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