RE: Patch for premain() function

> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:14:36PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> >this patches implements a user callable function before main() for
> >general initialisation purpose without needs for patching the mingw
> >runtime on user level.
>
> Why not just use the __attribute__((constructor)) for your function?

Can you make sure, that a specific constructor is been called first regardless
of the position in the list of the used objectfiles ?

As I know one of the possible link lines looks like this :

	gcc options ... <objectfiles> ... options ... <libraries> ... options and so
one

So if a constructor in <library> must be called at first and there are ones in
<objectfiles>, it seems there is no change or are I'm wrong ?

An additional premain() call makes sure that this is guaranteed like the
premain() functions in the cygwin library.

Ralf





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