Re: Thread safety of coroutine-sigaltstack

[Paolo Bonzini]

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.

Paolo