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From: bothner@sevenlayer.cs.wisc.edu (Per Bothner)
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Subject: ARM on order of static initialization
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Date: 8 Jan 91 21:26:04 GMT
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I know the issue of the order of initialization of static
variables is an old one, but I cannot find an answer in the ARM.

Initialization of non-local statics is discussed in ARM 3.4.
Near the end of p.19 it says "No further order is imposed on
the initialization of objects from different translation
units." This (together with the 2nd sentence of para 2
on p. 20) implies that there *is* an order imposed on the
initialization of objects from the *same* translation unit.
But this order is nowhere defined, as far as I can tell.
(Certainly not in the last non-bullet para on p.19, where
it would belong.) Am I missing something, or is the ARM?
-- 
	--Per Bothner
bothner@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Dept, U. of Wisconsin-Madison