From 8484821688688078840 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,deec59fd1ee296e8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: clerc@gla.ecoledoc.ibp.fr (Fabrice Clerc) Subject: Re: init of static objects Date: 1995/05/26 Message-ID: <3q550m$b02@vishnu.jussieu.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 103365943 distribution: world sender: clerc@donald () references: <3q2cig$81a@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.std.c++ What about unreferenced global objects whose ctors have side-effects ? Does the WP specify whether unreferenced global objects whose ctors have side effects must be constructed ? On some systems, these objects are never constructed (especially if you place them in libraries) ! [context: I use global objects to register 'pseudo-constructors' (a function which simply returns a new instance). The application never knows the 'real type' of the object but interacts with it using virtual functions only - these objects have a common base class]. thanks --- Fabrice Clerc clerc@gla.ecoledoc.ibp.fr