C++ ctors, cdtest.exe, printf and termios oh my!

[tonya at ece.ubc.ca (Tony R. Ambardar)]

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 joel at OARcorp.com wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Tony R. Ambardar wrote:
> 
> > This is what I originally suspected. However, I believe Rosimildo and Erik
> > have both successfully run cdtest.exe using interrupt-driven console I/O.
> > Hence my confusion...
> > 
> > Is this true, Erik, Rosimildo?
> 
> I may be out on a limb here but they use the video card for output which
> is not interrupt driven.  The interrupts are for keyboard input.
> 

True for the pc386 BSP; Erik's i386ex BSP uses serial I/O for the console
however. 

> Thus I am backing up a bit.  I don't think this is your problem. :(  
> 
> This looks like it could be the same problem I am dealing with on the
> sparc/erc32.  Thanks to Erik I, I am able to give you the following
> advice. :)
> 
> You need to have the .init/.fini sections in your linkcmds, bsp_specs must
> reference crti, crtn, crtbegin, and crtend, and -DUSE_INIT_FINI must be in
> the Makefile.in in the startup directory.
> 

Already done that. As I said, exceptions and global ctors/dtor work for me
when I don't use interrupt I/O. I suspect you were right in the first
place. Otherwise, I am happy that C++ stuff works properly for me.

By the way, I think there should be conditional code (checking
USE_INIT_FINI) in either main.c or boot_card.c that calls "atexit(_fini)" 
and "_init()". This seems to be missing from the last snapshot.


Tony

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