If this were a static library, you certainly would expect any static
constructors to run that were defined in that library. The only difference
in that scenario and this one is when the library is loaded into the image.
I would hazard to say that Linux (and FreeBSD, HPUX, Solaris and other
variants I've directly tried this on) are correct and MacOS X is not.
I have submitted this as Radar bug report to Apple as well, so we'll see if
anything comes of that.
-Brian
> From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:53:11 +0100
> To: Brian Dantes <email@hidden>
> Cc: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: __attribute__((constructor)) in dylib does not run with
> DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
>
>
> Am 28.02.2005 um 12:48 schrieb Brian Dantes:
>
>> I'm trying to port an LD_PRELOAD trick from Linux to MacOS X. Given the
>> following two files:
>>
>> foo.c:
>> ------
>> [...]
>> void __attribute__((constructor)) my_init() {
>> printf("Constructor called!\n");
>> }
>>
>> bar.c:
>> ------
>> int main() {
>> return 0;
>> }
>
>> If I change the code such that bar.c references some symbol in foo.c,
>> and link bar directly with the library, it works as
>> expected[Constructor is called].
>
> I'd say it works both times correctly and Linux wastes cycles with
> constructing unneeded objects. Loading is not constructing.
>
>
> my 2 cents
>
> Markus
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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> http://www.jump-ing.de/
>
>
>
>
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