Bug#101901: g++-3.0 and --use-cxa-atexit

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Chris, any support in ld needed?

laurent bonnaud writes:
 > Package: g++-3.0
 > Version: 1:3.0-1
 > Severity: normal
 > 
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > according to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known, it would seem to be a good
 > idea to compile g++-3.0 with the --use-cxa-atexit switch:
 > 
 > >Global destructors are not run in the correct order
 > 
 > >Global destructors should be run in the reverse order of their constructors
 > >completing. In most cases this is the same as the reverse order of constructors
 > >starting, but sometimes it is different, and that is important. You need to
 > >compile and link your programs with --use-cxa-atexit. We have not turned this
 > >switch on by default, as it requires a cxa aware runtime library (libc, glibc,
 > >or equivalent).
 > 
 > A more detailed explanation is given in:
 > 
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-12n/msg00664.html
 > 
 > 
 > -- System Information
 > Debian Release: testing/unstable
 > Architecture: i386
 > Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.4-686 #1 Sun Apr 29 12:22:40 EST 2001 i686
 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
 > 
 > Versions of packages g++-3.0 depends on:
 > ii  gcc-3.0                       1:3.0-1    The GNU C compiler.               
 > ii  gcc-3.0-base                  1:3.0-1    The GNU compiler collection (base 
 > ii  libc6                         2.2.3-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
 > ii  libstdc++3-dev                1:3.0-1    The GNU stdc++ library version 3 (
 > 
 > 
 > 
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