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From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
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Subject: Re: __attribute__((section))
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 20:13:19 GMT
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Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> wrote:

>You're right, but what about automatic locking of the section at
>startup? [continued below]

Well, I'd just call a function in main() to do it. Making it automatic
I would leave to the people who write the startup code... like,
Charles, I guess, if he think's it's cool. Otherwise, I couldn't be
bothered to make it automatic!

>>group it). No need for different .ld scripts unless you want to
>>control the placement of this section in the load image.

>So you have to create a separate .ld script anyway to initialize variables
>properly - just like it's done with .dtor .ctor sections. Note that the LIBC
>source contains only extern declarations of the __djgpp_first_ctor/dtor and
>__djgpp_last_ctor/dtor - they are actually created in .ld script. 

True, point taken. I'd stick .ltext on the end of .text, and .ldata on
the end of .data, as someone else suggested.

Wow... I think I've done something cool! :-)

>Mark

Regards,


ABW
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