Jan Hubicka <hubi...@ucw.cz> writes: > 2) Do the actual renaming of _GLOBAL__I into something else (fully local > name like static_ctor.1234 at a time it is being inserted > into merged ctor. > > We can't avoid producing these names early since on target that havecdtors > we avoid producing merged cdtors to avoid need for inlining (and the extra > function when inlining fails) > > We can't keep them in symbol table static when they are not constructors > as > collect2 is probably not only tool to explode. > Right?
I don't understand this at all. I thought you were saying that these are static functions, and that gcc gathers them all together into a single global constructor. Are there cases where gcc does not gather them together? Why would that be? Ian
