Dear list,
I'm currently trying to port a project (using C++) from mspgcc (3.2.3)
to mspgcc4. It is a generic C++ library, running (among other systems)
on top of Contiki (which is a C-based firmware/OS).
As far as I know, constructors of global C++ objects are not called
automatically, so
Constructors for global C++ objects should be called automatically, as long
as you're not doing something in the link phase that disrupts things. My
testing with the program below shows that it seems to work. Note that if
you fall off the end of main(), the global dtors are called.
Hmmm, what is the definition of __ctors_start?
I doubt it is an extern variable pointer to void. It is a constant value. Or
more precisely it is no lvalue. There is no memory location where its value is
stored. It just has a value, is a linker generated 'constant' reference.
But by your extern
