Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Summary of global constructor respo Message-ID: <4800041@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Oct 88 15:38:00 GMT References: <5964@columbia.edu> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:columbia.edu:5964:m.cs.uiuc.edu:4800041:000:325 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald Oct 28 10:38:00 1988 This is, actually, an area of C++ that needs a lot of work. There should be some way to specify the ordering of static modules and how those modules get initialized. This specification should occur either at compile time or link time. As it is, I tend to malloc many structures that I chould otherwise statically allocate.