On Tue 22 Nov 2005 at 10:29:17 +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> The only question for NetBSD adoption is, whether any architecture still
> has a non-ELF kernel. I don't mean the format of the final image, but
> whether the linkage is ELF. Depending on that, the work can be just used
> or needs some work in ld for the specific format.

Why not have config(8) generate a table with function pointers in the
correct order, to be called from main() (or whereever)?

Another option is to make the linker do the same as what it does for C++
global constructors, except that their order isn't specified. (or is
that those 'link sets' that were mentioned?)

> Joerg
-Olaf.
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