Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > The attached patch is my attempt at a new internal API for device
> > > creation in qemu.
> >
> > Instead of recreating constructors, I think we should just use GCC's
> > constructor attribute.  This gives us ordering which will be important
> > when dealing with buses.
>
> The reason I'm not using constructors is because you have to workaround
> ordering issues. All constructors are run before main(), so there's a very
> limited amount they can actually do, and constructor priorities are not
> available on all hosts.

Oh, the other thing is that constructors don't work when you put objects in a 
static library.  You need am explicit dependency to pull in objects.

Paul