[haiku-development] Re: add-ons and static initializers
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:21:12 +0200
Ingo Weinhold wrote:
>
> On 2008-06-11 at 22:16:29 [+0200], Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Stephan Assmus escreveu:
> >
> > > just a quick question: Assuming I have an add-on, which links
> > > statically against a library. I need to call an init function in the
> > > library that is supposed to be called only once per process. If I
> > > solve this via a static initializer, what happens when an application
> > > unloads the add-on and reloads it again? Will the static initializer
> > > always be called whenever the
> > > add-on is loaded? I am talking about the Xvid decoder, if you want to
> > > look at the code.
> >
> > I am pretty sure it would be ran all the time. otherwise when you
> > unloaded it there would be left-overs of it.
>
> Yep, the runtime loader invokes the constructors whenever a shared object
> (add-on in this case) has been loaded and the destructors when it is
> about to be unloaded.
Thank you both! I just started to wonder, it wasn't a problem I was
observing or anything... :-)
Best regards,
-Stephan
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