[Libvir] __attribute__((constructor)) anyone?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:58:04PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> Would anyone object to a patch using __attribute__((constructor)) 
> throughout libvirt rather than all this if(!initialised) initialise() stuff?

I don't think that annotation is widely supported enough by constructors
for us to be able to use it - in particular I think it'd be a problem for
the Solaris guys using libvirt unless they switched to GCC instead of the
Sun compilers/linkers.

Regards,
Dan.
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