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Re: C and C++ global variable difference(s)

Jan Engelhardt

2004-06-26, 10:10 am

>Anyhow, as in C are no constructors, there is probably no support for
>running them for global objects in kernelspace. Also, how about some
>details about when exactly the kernel freezes?

At least for GNU C, there is

void __attribute__((constructor)) run_at_startup(void) {
...
}