why does .jcr work?

Wed Nov 6 11:37:00 GMT 2002

Each class has a .jcr section containing its class registration. On
startup, libgcc's crtstuff.o looks for the symbol __JCR_BEGIN__ and
scans from there until __JCR_END__ to find the class registrations.
Two questions:
1. Why are all the .jcr sections guaranteed to be adjacent in the
 linked binary? Does the linker guarantee alphabetical ordering, or
 is ".jcr" a "magic section" that gets special treatment from the
 linker?
2. Why is this in libgcc instead of simply in the constructor for some
 static C++ class in libgcj?
Thanks!
 - a
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