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Diffstat (limited to 'stdlib/cxa_finalize.c')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/stdlib/cxa_finalize.c b/stdlib/cxa_finalize.c index 258fa56ce5..496141d802 100644 --- a/stdlib/cxa_finalize.c +++ b/stdlib/cxa_finalize.c @@ -24,7 +24,22 @@ /* If D is non-NULL, call all functions registered with `__cxa_atexit' with the same dso handle. Otherwise, if D is NULL, call all of the - registered handlers. */ + registered handlers. + + A __cxa_finalize function is declared in the libstdc++ <cxxabi.h> + header, and the libstdc++ implementation calls this function. GCC + calls the glibc variant directly from its CRT files, from an ELF + destructor. this call always passes a non-null D argument. In the + current implementation, the GCC-provided __cxa_finalize call is + responsible for removing the registered __cxa_atexit (C++) + destructors of an object that is undergoing dlclose. Note that + this is specific to dlclose. During process termination, glibc + invokes the __run_exit_handlers, which calls registered + __cxa_atexit (C++) destructors in reverse registration order, + across all objects. The subsequent GCC-provided __cxa_finalize + calls (which are ordered according to ELF object dependencies, not + __cxa_atexit call order, and group destructor calls per object + during dlclose) do not result in further destructor invocations. */ void __cxa_finalize (void *d) { |