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From: jon@oddhack.caltech.edu (Jon Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Is this a bug?
Message-ID: <3008@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 15:16:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 15:16:19 1987
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In article <731@boulder.Colorado.EDU> sanders@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bruce Sanders) writes:
>...
>If I comment out the two lines with "global" in them, everything works,
>producing the following output:
>...
>Alternatively, if I remove the cerr and print statements (indicated in
>the comment) from the constructor, it works correctly, producing
>...
>Is this a bug, or am I doing something illegal?

    The constructor for 'global' is probably being called before the
constructor for 'cerr'. Since cerr is declared in a different file,
it appears (see the reference manual 8.6.2) that you have no control
over the order in which these contructors are called, and thus should
not write code with this sort of dependency.

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    Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group
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