Re: what happens before main()?

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Ivan Ostres <[email protected]> wrote:
> So things like __cxa_vec_ctor for global objects and __cxa_guard for all
> statics are actually called by dyld? (I always thought it was done by crt).
> But that shouldn't be a huge performance impact unless there is a big number
> of unmapped libraries needed by application and/or huge number of global
> objects or classes with static members. In latter case it's a design issue,
> right?

C++ static constructors and functions with the constructor attribute
are in fact run by dyld.

> BTW, dyld is not open sourced, I guess?

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/dyld/dyld-132.13/

--Kyle Sluder