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What is the "munch"? How it was used with cfront

Hello

What was the munch library (or program?) from cfront package? What is was used for ?

Thanks

+2  A: 

Munch was used to scan the nm output and look for static constructors/destructors.

See the code (with comments) at SoftwarePreservation.com.

tvanfosson  2010-03-12 16:21:26
Thanks for the link
AProgrammer  2010-03-12 16:37:22
the link is visited, but i did not get the functionality of munch after looking at code.
osgx  2010-03-12 17:22:57
I suspect this is what `collect2` does for GCC.
Johannes Schaub - litb  2010-03-13 01:46:27
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Apparently it extracts initializers and finalizers.

T.J. Crowder  2010-03-12 16:21:34

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