Re: [Vala] [ModuleInit] and __attribute__ ((constructor)) ?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Ildar,

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 03:03 +0600, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> I am very new to Vala. Great thanks to Jürg and participants.
>
> I've a question (or it's really two separate questions?)
>
> 1. What does [ModuleInit] do?
>       I've checked the generated C-code for it and found that it does  
> nothing noticeable. At least in this snippet:  
> http://live.gnome.org/Vala/TypeModules

Vala uses g_type_module_register_type if you add the [ModuleInit]
attribute. That's needed if you want to dynamically load and unload
plug-ins that define types in the GObject type system.

> 2. I want to have __attribute__ ((constructor)) function but cannot  
> figure out how to do it. Any hint?

We do not support this at the moment. It's only available in GCC, as
fars as I know.

Jürg