Re: gettext usage in libraries

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Dick Porter wrote:

> 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?

No. That is higly dependant on the linker and the ELF object format.

/ Alex