> 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?
At the moment we don't gather when there is only one constructor of given priority and target has ctors/dtors support. This is prettier WRT user defined constructors and also to avoid need to do inlining (that does not happen at -O0). I guess gathering the ctors/dtors always is also an option. Other option that just came to my mind is to recognize the specially named ctors/dtors and always inline them only. Those should be all compiler produced and thus inlinable. Honza
