On 01/25/21 23:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 25/01/21 23:15, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> >> - How does this case differ from the registration of types? type_init() >> is a constructor function, and it generally ends up adding some >> structures with function pointers (I reckon) via type_table_add(). The >> main executable doesn't call into the device code directly -- only the >> constructor function calls another function from the same module. The >> main executable only goes through the registered type interfaces. How >> does the linker know in that case to preserve the whole object? > > We use either link_whole or extract_objects() for libraries that have > type-registering constructors.
Thanks! The meson reference manual explains these. Laszlo
