Re: [dpdk-dev] C++ app does not execute DPDK constructors.

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:24:36PM -0800, Sachin Jain wrote:
> Hi
> 
> *What am I trying to do?*
> 
> I am trying to write Gtests for my application based on DPDK.
> 
> *Details about the app:*
> 
> The application compiles dpdk as static library. Its a pretty simple. For
> now it just runs a dummy Gtest and create a memory pool. The key is, its a
> C++ file. I see no issue if it were a C app.
> 
> *Issue I am facing:*
> 
> The call to rte_mempool_create fails() with "Err: No such file or
> directory".
> 
> *More debugging:*
> 
> The reason for the above failure is, the constructor for the ring driver is
> not getting called. Specifically below code in
> ~/driver/mempool/ring/rte_mempool_ring.c.
> 
> MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS(ops_mp_mc);
> MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS(ops_sp_sc);
> MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS(ops_mp_sc);
> MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS(ops_sp_mc);
> 
> So when I look at the C app which has these constructors called, I see the
> init_array size to be much larger than the the C++ app. Considering the two
> code are almost identical, I don't know what am I missing to have these
> constructors run. They are definitely getting compiled but are not called.
> 
> *What have I tried:*
> 
> 1. I tried the --whole-archive LD option but I dont think that should play
> a part here since the constructors does get called with C app.
> 
Generally to get expected behaviour of constructors with static libs, you
need to use both --whole-archive and --no-as-needed linker flags. Other
than that, I'm not sure what the issue might be. The same .a files are used
to link against the C and C++ objects?

/Bruce