[llvm-commits] Patch for pr9213: Emit global_ctors into MSVCRT-compatible section for win32 targets

[Joe Groff]

Here's a partial fix for pr9213 that emits global constructors into
the .CRT$XCU section instead of .ctors when targeting win32. As far as
I know, MSVCRT doesn't natively support an equivalent to .dtors, so
I'm not sure what the correct way to handle them is: generate a stub
ctor that registers dtors using atexit(); modify compiler-rt to
produce that stub; or leave it in frontends' hands to use atexit()
instead of global_dtors when destructors aren't supported by the
target platform. Are there other platforms that don't support dtors
that I can look to as an example?

Global initializers still need additional work in Clang for win32,
because Clang emits __dso_handle and __cxa_atexit references that
aren't satisfied by MSVCRT. I believe atexit could simply be used in
place of __cxa_atexit, but I'm not sure what the best equivalent to
__dso_handle would be.

-Joe
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