[Geany-devel] Geany Newsletter Issue #5

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 28.05.2012 11:27, schrieb Frank Lanitz:
> It's important to note that the dynamic library loading mechanism
> that loads plugins is C functionality and does not know about C++
> constructors. This means that global and static objects in the
> plugin will *not* have their constructors called when the plugin is
> loaded. Use dynamically created objects as show in the above example.
>

I'm not sure this is true. libdl should handle this (i.e. call functions 
point to in the init and fini sections).

|__attribute__ ((constructor)) and||__attribute__  ((destructor)) is supported works with as well.

Best regards.
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