usefulness of UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR ?

[Rob Landley]

On 08/20/2011 10:24 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:00:44PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Friday, August 12, 2011 13:59:51 Rich Felker wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:53:23PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>>> C libraries can have constructors and destructors too.
>>>
>>> No they cannot. Those may be "GNU C" libraries but they are not C
>>> libraries.
>>
>> libraries written in C can have constructors and deconstructors too.  see the 
>> init/fini gcc attributes.  this is part of the ELF spec and the language 
>> (C/C++/...) is irrelevant.
> 
> Just because the ELF binary format makes it possible to do something
> doesn't mean that's C. There's plenty you can do with ELF making an
> ELF file by hand that would be impossible with any C compiler or even
> a GNU C compiler. Ctors/dtors are part of ELF so it can support C++.

atexit() predates c++.

Rob