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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: bug with making C++ functions have C linkage ?
Message-ID: <306@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 17:16:18 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.122905.23613@cs.nott.ac.uk> <675@taumet.com> <1991Apr22.081254@Unify.com>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <675@taumet.com>, steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
/ Almost all current C++ compilers require that main() be compiled by
/ the C++ compiler, even if other modules are compiled with a compatbile
/ C compiler.
/ 
/ In general, C++ programs will require initialization of static objects
/ via their constructors at runtime; cout is such an object.  The C++
/ compiler arranges for the constructors (and destructors) to be called
/ via special code emitted in the module in which main() appears.

This is not the way Zortech C/C++ works. There, the static constructors
are called by the startup code before main() is called, so it doesn't
matter if main() was compiled with the C or the C++ compiler. In fact
the runtime library for the C compiler uses static constructors... (!).