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From: davew@panache.cs.umd.edu (David G. Wonnacott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: cout in static object constructors
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Date: 24 May 91 21:44:23 GMT
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In article <746@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>With this in mind, iostreams were carefully designed to guarantee
>that the standard streams are all initialized before any user-defined
>objects are constructed, PROVIDED that you #include <iostream.h> (or
>some file which includes it, such as <fstream.h> or <strstream.h>)
>ahead of any static object which needs to use a standard stream.

I believe this works with AT&T's iostream library, but not with the
stream library distributed with G++.
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David Wonnacott
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