On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 21:06 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Richard Henderson wrote:
And of course as you note elsewhere, this is an excellent time to
have new toolchains stop using .init, as DT_INIT_ARRAY has none of
these problems.
Given the above I think we need it sooner rather than later. Who's got
the power to make it happen?
Maciej
Would switching from .init to DT_INIT_ARRAY be an incompatible ABI
change? I think I remember the GNU linker can handle mixing both types
of sections in one executable but I am not sure if that is right.
I added Richard Sandiford to this email in case he hasn't seen it on the
libc mailing lists.