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On 29/01/2010 15:28, Andrew West wrote:

> Ah o.k. So is there any documentation on how Cygwin should do things
> differently? 

  Only the source so far, but I'll add some when I fix this.

> Should atexit be used for both executables and library
> static destructors? Is there a reason for not using __cxa_atexit?

  The user should use the cd-tor attributes, as you have done, and the tool
chain should make it "just work", which (without having double-checked yet
today) will probably involve a bit of new code in the cygwin dll.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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