If I had my way

[Walter Bright]

On 12/14/2011 2:17 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> If the compiler generated static constructors and destructors ala C++ that
>> would then be used to register the sections, that could hook into the existing
>> C++ support code and not require special linker scripts and special object files.
>
> I partly agree and will give that approach another try.
> The huge drawback is that a shared library is self-contained w.r.t.
> module construction, TLS and EH. When doing this on a per object base
> the overhead increases with the number of linked objects and guaranteeing
> ordered initialization becomes non-trivial.

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted it.