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Re:Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers by ajross on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:26PM (#18833654)
> I think you can in fact realize the idea in PECOFF, by the way.

You can express it in ELF too, with a NOBITS segment with ALLOC but no WRITE flag. Whether that works or exercises bugs in the dynamic loader is an open question.

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Re:Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers by amluto on Sunday January 06, 2019 @11:11AM (#18838979)
On Linux (in the kernel image), it exercises bugs in the dynamic loader. I tried it once :)
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