Re: does g++ delay initializing static local variables?

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:

> Say I have a C++ function like this:
>
> void my_function() {
>     static int x = 0;
> }
>
> Then will initialization of x to 0 be delayed until the first call of
> the function? The ABI spec talks about that here:
> http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi.html#once-ctor
>
> I was unclear whether this only applies to objects with constructors,
> or whether it also applies to POD initialized with a constant, as
> above.

It only applies to objects which are dynamically initialized, with a
constructor or with a non-constant initial value.  It does not apply to
something like your example above, in which a POD is initialized with a
constant.

Ian