that’s an initializer function(s), which are run when dyld loads the library. However the kernel will never execve(2) a Mach-O file of dylib type, so the usage describe is not possible. Shantonu On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Jens Alfke <jens@mooseyard.com> wrote:

I'm pretty sure it can, since there are language facilities for making functions run when the code is loaded — Clang and GCC's C compilers have __attribute((constructor)), and C++ of course has static initializers.

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