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From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Initializing Global Objects
Message-ID: <39929@ditka.Chicago.COM>
Date: 28 May 91 13:54:40 GMT
References: <76813@brunix.UUCP> <1991May27.060310.16757@mathcs.sjsu.edu> <750@taumet.com>
Sender: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
Reply-To: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau)
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In article <750@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
:Cay's analysis reflects current implementations, but not anything in the
:language definition.  The language definition makes no distinction between
:the initialization of
:	int i = 1;	// value can be part of load image
:and
:	extern int j, k;
:	class C { C(int, int); ... };
:	C c(j, k);	// value cannot be part of load image
:The requirement is merely that both initializations be complete before
:the first statement of main() is executed.

That also sorta reflects current implementation though as that is only 1/2 the
requirement accto ARM p19: "Such initializations may be done before the first
statement of main() or deferred to any point in time before the first use of a
function or object defined in that translation unit."

- Greg
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