Re: What is the right way to initialize GLibc?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Fri 14 Mar 2014 23:13:40 Steven Stewart-Gallus wrote:
> Suppose I'm experimenting with making an executable shared library
> like GLibc itself is. I can get something simple like that working but
> I want to do more and to do that I need to initialize libc. I think
> the right way to do this is to call __libc_start_main manually in my
> libraries start function but I don't know how to do that. What is the
> right way to initialize GLibc?

i'm afraid we've never speced this out and most likely never will.  there's so 
many little pieces spread over the crt/ldso/libc/etc...  that i'm not sure 
this is worthwhile.

note that the way a shared app initializes is not the same as a static app.  
it is actually the ldso which starts execution when the app is shared and 
takes care of doing initialization before calling the app's main.
-mike

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