Jan Hubicka <hubi...@ucw.cz> writes: > The problem is that GCC produce constructors/destructors at various places > and they all used to be called GLOBAL__I > and GLOBAL__D. Then in some cases (on targets that don't have global > ctors/dtors or with LTO and ctor/dtor merging) > it actually collect them into single constructor function called also > GLOBAL__I and GLOBAL__D. > Since the first ones are static functions called by the actual constructor, > we get problem on targets not having > ctors/dtors because collect2 collects even static symbols and attempts to > call them from main(). This is reason why > I renamed them to be no longer recognized specially.
If I understand you, it sounds like they could have any name at all. Just give them a name which doesn't start with _GLOBAL__. Then there won't be any problem. Although you should still update the demangler to do something sensible with them. Ian
