Re: Question about global object constructors, VxWorks, and GCC 2.95(fwd)

[Bryan Ogawa <bogawa at vovida dot com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Luke Diamand wrote:

Luke,

I was wondering if you happened to have that code for globalize-symbol
handy?


> The problem is that gcc 2.95 makes the ctor objects local. 
> 
> Here's some code compiled with gcc 2.95.1:
> 
> 00000068 t L2
> 00000048 t L5
> 00000044 t L8
> 0000006c t __GLOBAL_.I.x_
> 0000004c t ___1X
> 00000000 t ___static_initialization_and_destruction_0
> 00000000 B _x_
>          U _x__Fv
> 
> And here's the same code compiled with gcc 2.8.1:
> 
> 0000003c t .L1
> 0000001c t .L6
> 00000018 t .L7
> 00000000 T __GLOBAL_$I$x_
> 00000020 t ___1X
> 00000000 B _x_
>          U _x__Fv
> 
> We've not had this precise problem with VxWorks, but we do have an
> analgous problem, which we have solved by patching objcopy to give it a
> --globalize-symbol option.
> 
> If anyone's interested, I'll pop it on an ftp site somewhere. Working
> out what to do with collect2 is probably the right thing to do, though
> ;-(

Thanks,

-- 
Bryan K. Ogawa  <bogawa@vovida.com>  http://www.vovida.com/


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