Liam Wilson wrote in <CAO5MFrpVKkLVFg91=Bfjm-UpAoj03HA=ey-kgmkziobdlrj...@mail.gmail.com>: |On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 18:27, Liam Wilson <cosinusoida...@gmail.com> wrote: |> |> On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 17:00, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: |>> |>> Liam Wilson wrote in |>> <cao5mfrout56vlh68eoxjfupi-60byda1bhfpngrwziedqq1...@mail.gmail.com>: |>> ... |>>|I've been attempting to build nodejs Node-API addons using the tiny c |>>|compiler. When doing this I noticed that the addons were failing to |>>|self register on load in nodejs as the constructors were failing to |>>|run. gcc worked fine, but tcc failed. Node-API addons use |>>|__attribute__((constructor)) in order to register themselves on load. |>> |>> Spoiler attack: i consider this a feature. |>> I never used static constructors in C++, and i hated Stroustrup's |>> "injection" idea. (There was a short time when i used it, but it |>> is sick.) Anyhow on first-time-init-switches ... when i create |>> a framework that uses dynamic modules, why can't i define |>> a special symbol that is called when it is defined upon load? Like |>> __nodejs_init() or something? We surely do not want to create too |>> many specifics, it is just a loose thing, maybe. Hm. |> |> Yep, I'm not a fan of static contructors either. I think explcit |> initialisation is a better idea. Unfortunately the API uses |> __attribute__((constructor)) so currently there is no work around. I |> will raise on the nodejs issue tracker though as it would be nice if |> it could optionally just call an explicit init function. | |Turns out there is actually an option to have nodejs call an explicit |init function https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/44853#issuecomment-1\ |264615934 |I just missed it as I was using a slightly older version of the API.
Somehow interesting that such a huge API does not offer macros to hide the declspec from module implementors. But great! (That is how i would have done it, and it worked twenty years ago.) Ciao, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
