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Panzerschrektoday at 7:34 AM1 replyview on HN

But what if I have a C++ dynamic library? Does it call constructors for global variables before _start function in the main program starts?


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bonzinitoday at 10:57 AM

_start takes care of calling the global initializers and register the atexit callback for the finalizers.

(In practice _start calls __libc_start_main, a libc function that handles all of that).