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Re: Unclear content of dlfcn.c


On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 05:56:40 Marek Polacek wrote:
> I've recently come across the glibc/dlfcn/dlfcn.c file and I don't quite
> understand this part of the file:
> 
> static void (*const init_array []) (int argc, char *argv[])
>      __attribute__ ((section (".init_array"), aligned (sizeof (void *))))
>      __attribute_used__ =
> {
>   init
> };

init arrays are processed by the ldso and executed automatically.  it merely 
needs to be a list of function pointers.
-mike

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