Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind ignores program if linked with -static flag

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Olly Betts wrote:

> > It now compiles and runs, but Valgrind doesn't get invoked.
> > I guess it's because the .init section in coregrind/vg_startup.S doesn't
> > get called.  Normally the "-z initfirst" flag is given to the linker when
> > building valgrind.so... any suggestions how/when to use it when building
> > libvalgrind.a?
>
> An untested idea - try partially linking vg_startup.o so that you have a
> linker invocation to pass "-z initfirst" to:
>
> 	<assemble vg_startup.S to vg_startup.o>
> 	ld -r -z initfirst vg_startup.o -o vg_startup-tmp.o
> 	mv vg_startup-tmp.o vg_startup.o

Hmm, no luck.  Maybe that's not enough, or maybe the 'initfirst' isn't the
problem (or isn't the only problem)?

N