Re: gettext usage in libraries

[Dick Porter <dick ximian com>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:50:39AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt> writes: 
> > The problem is, that both things need to be called only once. So, add
> > them to library initialize function (do they have one, how do I find
> > them?), or, make the library use custom
> > 
> > char* libfoo_gettext (char* str) {
> > 	static int initialized = FALSE;
> > 	if (!initialized) {
> > 		bind......
> > 
> > What is recomended, best way to do such things?
> 
> I think it depends on the library; if a lib already has an init
> function, that's the obvious place to do this stuff, if it doesn't,
> then something like libfoo_gettext makes sense.

Do all interesting compilers support the equivalent of gcc's constructor
function attribute? And if so, isn't this something that can be abstracted
by glib?

- Dick