Possible C++ bug: construction/destruction of global objects

[Evan Lavelle <eml at riverside-machines dot com>]

Is this a bug? Basically, if I declare more than one object of type 
'wibble' at global scope (ie. 'foo1' and 'foo2' below), and 'wibble' has 
a string constructor parameter, and the 'wibble' constructor calls 
exit(), then I get a SIGSEGV during the exit(). This happens before 
main() is called. Note that the code works (ie. the exit() completes 
without a problem) if I declare only one 'wibble' object.

I'm on 2.96, x86, RH7.2.

Thanks.

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#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>

struct wibble {
   string name;

   wibble(string n) : name(n) {
      cout << "exiting:" << endl;
      exit(1);  // get a SIGSEGV here
   }
};

wibble foo1("foo1");
wibble foo2("foo2");  // commenting this out solves the problem

int main() {
   cout << "Shouldn't get this far" << endl;
}