Global destructor order problems (was: Re: Are ports supposed to build and run on 10-CURRENT?)

[Dimitry Andric]

On Jun 26, 2013, at 22:45, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:26:09PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> This revision is not in 9.1-RELEASE, but it is in 9-STABLE, so the
>> problem can also be reproduced there.
> ...
>> This is roughly gcc 4.3.0 and later.  For example, gcc 4.8 generates:
> I just tested the thing with gcc 4.8 on up to date stable/9 and HEAD.
> In both cases, major tom did not fail, at least not in the peculiar way.
> The gcc-generated code passed the PLT address of the corresponding
> destructor.

That is strange, did you compile the main program with -fPIC?  That is
the problem case.  If you don't compile the main program with -fPIC, the
problem will indeed not occur.

-Dimitry