[openbeos] Re: initialize_before, _init, etc.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Andrew Bachmann wrote:

> There's been some discussion on the net list about a problem stemming
> from a situation where
> initialize_before wasn't called when a library was loaded.  I figured it
> was worth starting a
> thread in the main list about it since it seems to be something that we
> should (all) discuss.  In
> particular it seems that we can't generally rely on initialize_before.

I don't know what the problem was in the particular case you're referring
to, but it should generally work.

> It's not particular portable. (read: at all)

It doesn't have to. This functionality is implemented in glue code we do
(respectively will) provide (cf. src/kernel/glue/).

CU, Ingo

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