The following reply was made to PR bin/37347; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, jtc@acorntoolworks.com
Subject: Re: bin/37347: ld.elf_so does not execute .init/.fini functions in order
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:49:47 +0000

 On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:35:35PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > On Dec 1, 10:55pm, ad@netbsd.org (Andrew Doran) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: bin/37347: ld.elf_so does not execute .init/.fini functions i
 > 
 > | The following reply was made to PR bin/37347; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > | 
 > | From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
 > | To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > | Cc: 
 > | Subject: Re: bin/37347: ld.elf_so does not execute .init/.fini functions in order
 > | Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:51:00 +0000
 > | 
 > |  I've updated jtc's patch for -current:
 > |  
 > |  	http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/ld-current.diff
 > |  
 > 
 > Why don't you commit it?
 
 I think it could use more test coverage. There is still another problem.
 shlibs aren't linked directly against libc so there is no dependency
 recorded.
 
 libc and threads can get initialized very late on, while the constructors
 for other shlibs are already making use of their facilities. We should
 probably fix the link process but I'm beginning to think that we need some
 sort of special case for libc. I'm not sure how else we can deal with all
 the shlibs already out there.
 
 This is from firefox-2 with the patch applied:
 
 _rtld_call_init_functions()
 _rtld_initlist_tsort
 calling init function /usr/lib/libm387.so.0 at 0xbb379a00
 calling init function /usr/lib/libm.so.0 at 0xbb35d740
 calling init function /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 at 0xbb262650
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libnspr4.so at 0xbba3fcc0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libplds4.so at 0xbba6c9f0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libplc4.so at 0xbba68f30
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libmozjs.so at 0xbbb51a70
 calling init function /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 at 0xbb2b7f60
 calling init function /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 at 0xbb26d3b0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxpcom_core.so at 0xbbac13c0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so at 0xbbb3e3b0
 calling init function /usr/lib/libintl.so.0 at 0xbb37d6e0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 at 0xbb390650
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 at 0xbb40eb50
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 at 0xbb417960
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 at 0xbb693f80
 calling init function /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 at 0xbb4508d0
 calling init function /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 at 0xbb67b3c0
 calling init function /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 at 0xbb6be0e0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 at 0xbb50e990
 calling init function /usr/lib/libz.so.0 at 0xbb15e470
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.so.6 at 0xbb555b80
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libexpat.so.1 at 0xbb0d4f70
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 at 0xbb5b1b80
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libglitz.so.1 at 0xbb13a140
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libpng12.so.0 at 0xbb11b120
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libXrender.so.1 at 0xbb5001b0
 calling init function /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 at 0xbb0f3c80
 calling init function /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 at 0xbb111d40
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libcairo.so.2 at 0xbb604420
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 at 0xbb5d9c90
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 at 0xbb68b6a0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libXrandr.so.2 at 0xbb686b60
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libXfixes.so.0 at 0xbb663d90
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libXcursor.so.1 at 0xbb669c20
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 at 0xbb6d6df0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 at 0xbb6aaab0
 calling init function /usr/pkg/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 at 0xbb787e30
 calling init function /usr/lib/libz.so.1 at 0xbb53f2e0
 calling init function /usr/lib/libc.so.12 at 0xbb186170
 
 Doing a string match on the name isn't great, so I'm wondering if there
 is another cheap way to identify it, like something in the ELF headers.
 
 Andrew