http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55617
--- Comment #48 from Alexander Potapenko <glider at google dot com> 2013-02-04 10:11:32 UTC --- (In reply to comment #40) > if (ctor_recA->position > ctor_recB->position) > return -1; > if (ctor_recA->position < ctor_recB->position) > return 1; > > This is wrong. I think we want this reversed as well. We want original > order. > A testcase with two ctors, should in the end have the one with the lower > original position first. > > So, for me to approve it, I need to know if sorting just inside 1 translation > unit is enough to make -fsanitize=address work. I fear the answer to that is > no, and without cross translation unit support, this is just bug pushing > (obscuring a bug with a non-fix that just makes fixing it even harder). I > won't approve it if it is bug pushing. If cross has to work, then cross > shared > libraries I suspect has to work as well. In LLVM this is done without cross-TU: we just emit a call to __asan_init per TU and append it to the list of global constructors for the current module (note that the constructors' priorities on Darwin do not work across modules at all: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12556
