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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:02:41 +0100
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bugs in 2.8.0?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote :
> 
> I'm afraid putting that code into the library might be worse, for
> these reasons:
> 
>   1) Library modules are linked after all the object files.  Since
>      functions with the `constructor' attribute are processed in the
>      order they are seen by the linker, this means that users cannot
>      use exception in their own functions which they declare
>      "__attribute__((constructor))".

If we place it in crt1.c and call it from there we don't need the
__attribute__((constructor))

>   2) We are introducing subtle but significant coupling between djdev
>      and GCC, which as I understand DJ doesn't want.

That's an argument which I understand and therefore I wanted to
have a separate startup object file.

Robert