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[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>] problem with unwind info for .init/.fini sections

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Feb 28 17:43:00 GMT 2002 
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:19:35PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:58:52 -0800, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:
> 
>   HJ> I am not sure if .init_array/.fini_array are supported. It will
>   HJ> be nice to add them to binutils.
> 
> >From my point of view, it's more worthwhile to spend time on getting
> .init_array/.fini_array supported than trying to fix up .init/.fini.
> I'm willing to help with such an effort, but I probably would need a
> fair amount of help (or at least support) from the glibc and binutils
> maintainers.  Anyone else willing to help with this?
> 

I believe glibc is ok. The problem is binutils. I didn't see any
supports for DT_INIT_ARRAY, DT_FINI_ARRAY. DT_INIT_ARRAYSZ,
DT_FINI_ARRAYSZ, DT_PREINIT_ARRAY nor DT_PREINIT_ARRAYSZ.


H.J.
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