Re: Cross Tools Help

[Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff dot com>]

Joel:


>From memory (I don't have an m68k toolchain in front of me at the
moment), I think .fini is a table of pointers to stuff that gets run
after main() exits.  Destructors for global objects, for example.

It usually goes in ROM.


b.g.

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:14:33AM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> I got this personally and thought someone on this list
> might provide a better answer or pointers for it.
> 
> sridhar wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Mr.Joel,
> > 
> >         I have some clarifications in M68K gcc cross compiler.
> > 
> >         What does FINI_SECTION mean and who executes it and where it gets
> > placed in embedded target.
> > 
> >         Is the above absolutely necessary?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > N.SRIDHAR
> > Electronics & Instrumentation Divn
> > Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research (Dept. of Atomic Energy)
> > Kalpakkam - 603102
> 
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