On 04.03.2022 09:57, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 08:49:39AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> This simply parallels .dtors. Both section types can reference
>> .text.exit, which requires them to be discarded together with that one.
>> Compilers, depending on their findings during the configure phase, may
>> elect to use either model. While .{init,fini}_array look to be
>> preferred, cross compilers apparently have this guessed, likely
>> resulting in a fallback to .{c,d}tors. Hence we need to support both
>> sets.
>
> Do we also need to consider discarding .fini? Or that's guaranteed to
> not be used by the compiler?
I'm not aware of it being used anymore; if it was used, we'd also need
to deal with .init (which - logically, but not technically - would
conflict with our own section of this same name in xen.efi).
Jan
