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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: problem with global object construction
Message-ID: <13238@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 20:38:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.223800.21774@searchtech.com>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <1991Apr23.223800.21774@searchtech.com> davidr@searchtech.com (David Resnick) writes:
>I'm using MPW 3.1, programming in C++.  I seem to have discovered that
>if I define a global object, the constructor for that object is
>not actually called until a non-inline method is called on the object
>from within a block.  Here is my test program:

I got a message back from the C++ engineers.  There's a compiler flag -z5
which says to not strip unused static objects that have constructors or
destructors.  

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

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