Re: [Tinycc-devel] __attribute__((constructor)) not getting called

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Liam Wilson wrote in
 <CAO5MFrpVKkLVFg91=Bfjm-UpAoj03HA=Ey-kGmkZiOBdLrjjOQ@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 18:27, Liam Wilson <cosinusoidally@gmail.com> wrote:
 |>
 |> On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 17:00, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
 |>>
 |>> Liam Wilson wrote in
 |>>  <CAO5MFrouT56VLH68eoxJfUPi-60ByDA1bhFPnGrWziEdqQ1Nng@mail.gmail.com>:
 |>>  ...
 |>>|I've been attempting to build nodejs Node-API addons using the tiny c
 |>>|compiler. When doing this I noticed that the addons were failing to
 |>>|self register on load in nodejs as the constructors were failing to
 |>>|run. gcc worked fine, but tcc failed. Node-API addons use
 |>>|__attribute__((constructor)) in order to register themselves on load.
 |>>
 |>> Spoiler attack: i consider this a feature.
 |>> I never used static constructors in C++, and i hated Stroustrup's
 |>> "injection" idea.  (There was a short time when i used it, but it
 |>> is sick.)  Anyhow on first-time-init-switches ... when i create
 |>> a framework that uses dynamic modules, why can't i define
 |>> a special symbol that is called when it is defined upon load?  Like
 |>> __nodejs_init() or something?  We surely do not want to create too
 |>> many specifics, it is just a loose thing, maybe.  Hm.
 |>
 |> Yep, I'm not a fan of static contructors either. I think explcit
 |> initialisation is a better idea. Unfortunately the API uses
 |> __attribute__((constructor)) so currently there is no work around. I
 |> will raise on the nodejs issue tracker though as it would be nice if
 |> it could optionally just call an explicit init function.
 |
 |Turns out there is actually an option to have nodejs call an explicit
 |init function https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/44853#issuecomment-1\
 |264615934
 |I just missed it as I was using a slightly older version of the API.

Somehow interesting that such a huge API does not offer macros to
hide the declspec from module implementors.
But great!  (That is how i would have done it, and it worked
twenty years ago.)

Ciao,

--steffen
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