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From: hall@eclipse.stanford.edu (Keith Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Are global class objects special?
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Date: 2 Oct 90 16:24:51 GMT
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In article <28241@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>
>In article <26729@mimsy.umd.edu>, wilson@brillig.cs.umd.edu writes:
>> I'm just generally puzzled about execution of code before main
>> in invoked.  Apparently, I can't count on all necessary 
>> system initializations being performed before my constructors
>> are called.
>
>This is a libg++ problem, though it can bite users of cfront in
>some situations as well.  I've worked around the problem by
>modifying gnulib3.c to call global constructors in
>reverse order (so libraries will be initialized before your code).
>You can also work around the problem by making sure your .o files
>are handed to the linker in an order that works (constructors are
>called in the order that the .o files are given to the linker).

Having the constructors called in the proper order seems so
fundamental that I don't understand why that behavior is not already
ensured by the compiler/linker.  Buck, can your mods to gnulib3
become a standard part of libg++?

Keith