.init doesn't get run ...

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Hello all,

I am currently in the process of making a linux-x-freebsd cross compiler based
on Newlib. For that, I have ported Newlib to FreeBSD and have been able to
run C programs without any problems. The C++ part is a bit more tricky, though:
apparently whatever gcc puts in the .init section (using ELF for linking, BTW)
doesn't actually get run.

To make sure that this is true, I've written the following program and cross-
compiled it to FreeBSD - it *should* print "Hello, world!" twice but only does
so once on FreeBSD4.7

Can anyone here confirm or deny that 
a. this is a bug in my assembly: like this, "Hello World!" should only be 
   printed once (in which case there's a bug in my Linux box, because it gets
   printed twice there)
b. this is a bug in gcc: FreeBSD4.7 is known not to run .init and has every
   right not to do so. _start should take care of everything
c. this is a bug in FreeBSD: whatever is in .init should be run

The assembly is in the attached file.

Thx

rlc

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Attachment: init.S
Description: test to see if whatever is in .init really gets called

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