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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Are global class objects special?
Message-ID: <11427@alice.att.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 20:45:14 GMT
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In article <1990Oct2.162451.3101@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, hall@eclipse.stanford.edu (Keith Hall) writes:

> 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.

What is the proper order?  How can a compiler determine what
that order is?
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com