failure to construct global object

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar  7, 2000, Gisli Ottarsson <gisli@adams.com> wrote:

>>> The problem seems to be that the constructor for this object is never
>>> called.  

>>>>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:39:52 +0100, Martin v. Loewis said:
 
MvL> Thanks for your bug report. Without seeing any details, I'd
MvL> claim that the compiler is working properly, and that you made
MvL> some mistake. 

> Fair enough.  Let me try to change your mind.

Before I join this discussion: how are you linking the executable?
Are you using `g++' or running `ld' directly?  The latter isn't
supposed to work, and this is one of the symptoms.

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