Finding static initializers and destructors in C++

Question

I have a program with way too many static initializers and destructors. I want to get rid of all of them. So i need a way to find them.

Running nm on the executable gives something like this: 0004bfc0 t _Z41_static_initialization_and_destruction_0ii

Is there a good way to get a list of files from where static_initializers are being included?

Answer 1

you could run nm on an object file which is later linked into the final executable. or create a script to parse nm's output for you if you've a lot to go through.

depending on the definitions of the data, you may also find you have duplicates which could be reduced to one object.