[Playerstage-developers] Plugins (reminder)

[ahoward <ah...@po...>]

One last thing (promise).

For those of you playing with plugins, be aware that there are two ways to
initialize/finalize your plugin, either:

  void _init(void)
  void _fini(void)

or

  void __attribute__ ((constructor)) example_init(void)
  void __attribute__ ((destructor)) example_fini(void)

The online documentation says that you will DIE if you use the former, and
that the latter is the ONE TRUE WAY.  See Brad's previous post on this:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8531079

On my machine however, the former works but the latter does not.  Brian
suspects that this is a bug that got fixed with gcc 3.3 (I am using
3.2.2), so you may have to play around to figure out which method works
for you.  Alternatively, if anyone knows a generic fix for this, I would
be keen to hear it.

	A.


Andrew Howard                           email: ah...@po...
Department of Computer Science          http:  www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward
University of Southern California       phone: 1 (213) 740 6416
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