alt Hacker News> By letting the linker run arbitrary code before main
As I know C++ allows running arbitrary code before main too - for constructors of global variables. Does it bring security risks too?
> By letting the linker run arbitrary code before main
As I know C++ allows running arbitrary code before main too - for constructors of global variables. Does it bring security risks too?
It does not, it's actually arbitrary code running during the dynamic loading process, i.e. before _start.