Here is another message from Jakub on the complete unnecessity
of debian using the patch...
Jack
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 2 01:15:44 2002
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 07:15:44 +0200
From: Jakub Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jack Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: why debian uses --use-cxa-atexit
Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Jun 01, 2002
at 07:21:20PM -0400
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 07:21:20PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> I've gone back through the debian-gcc mailing list and found
> the origin of debian using --use-cxa-atexit in their gcc 3.x
> compiler builds. It is in the thread starting with...
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2001/debian-gcc-200106/msg00126.html
>
> which basically says that they are using --use-cxa-atexit because
> global destructors are not run in the correct order. They got this
> from http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known which has...
>
> Global destructors are not run in the correct order.
>
> Global destructors should be run in the reverse order of their
> constructors completing. In most cases this is the same as the reverse
> order of constructors starting, but sometimes it is different, and that
> is important. You need to compile and link your programs
> with --use-cxa-atexit. We have not turned this switch on by default, as
> it requires a cxa aware runtime library (libc, glibc, or equivalent).
>
> Is this information still accurate for gcc 3.1? It would seem this is the
> only reason debian is using --use-cxa-atexit. Thanks for any clarifications.
It is not about being or not being accurate for gcc 3.1, it is about glibc
2001-02-26 or later having:
/* This is defined by newer gcc version unique for each module. */
extern void *__dso_handle __attribute__ ((__weak__));
/* Register FUNC to be executed by `exit'. */
int
atexit (void (*func) (void))
{
return __cxa_atexit ((void (*) (void *)) func, NULL,
&__dso_handle == NULL ? NULL : __dso_handle);
}
/* Hide the symbol so that no definition but the one locally in the
executable or DSO is used. */
#ifdef HAVE_DOT_HIDDEN
asm (".hidden\tatexit");
#endif
in /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a (and exporting atexit from libc.so only
as compatibility symbol version, so nothing newly linked can use it).
Jakub
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