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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: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 15:01:20 GMT
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tob AT world DOT std DOT com (Tom Breton) wrote:

>alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams) writes:
>> 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!

>If you just call it in main, constructors can't use anything that needs
>to be locked.

It won't be /locked/ when the constructors run... even if they install
interrupt handlers, the risk will be minimal; it'd be easy to add it
to crt1.c anyway.

>As a stopgap solution, the locker itself could be a constructor for a
>static object. You'd put a single instance of that object in a file,
>preferably the first file linked. That would also let you only include
>the library code when you had stuff to lock.

Yup.

Regards,


ABW
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I have become... Comfortably numb...

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