How do global variables get initialized by the elf loader

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Published on 2010-04-15T22:08:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 22:13 UTC
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For global variables in C like

int aglobal = 5;

When does the 5 get transferred into aglobal by the loader and how does it know to put 5 in aglobal.

Same situation with a static declaration in a function. Like

int afunc() { static int astatic = 8; return astatic; }

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