Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:06:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Startup customization
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On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> void dummy() __attribute__ ((constructor));

How is this different from the ctor mechanism?  DJ?

> it looks much betther than the actual implementation. For accessing
> the arc and argv variables you can uses the __crt0_argc and __crt0_argv,
> which are defined in 'crt1.c'.

Thanks, I already figured this out.

> The order of calling the functions
> in the .ctor sections depends in my opinion on the order how they
> are linked.

Yes, I thought so too, and verified this by writing a small program with 
two ctors.