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...: for an in-depth account see http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf (and note there are older versions of that document around). Consider for example stats.so. On a gcc4 Linux system this has just three entry points gannet% nm -g stats.so | grep " T " 00002720 T R_init_stats 0004a544 T _fini 00001f28 T _init since the only entry point we need is the symbol registration. This results in a smaller DSO and a faster load. It is only worth doing for shared objects with many entry points, but this one had 262. It also gives another reason for the registration of symbols, as this...