Static initialisation question...

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 24, 2001, Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org> wrote:

>> 
>> On Apr 24, 2001, Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > My qeustion is if it is safe to assume that static member objects of
>> > a base class are always initialised before statis member objects of
>> > a derived class?
>> 
>> Is this a question about C++ the language (in which this is the wrong
>> forum) or about the g++ implementation on a certain platform (in which
>> case I don't know the answer anyway)?

> It's a question about the g++ implementation.

Still, you failed to mention which platform your question applies to.
The answer may well change from platform to platform, since it's quite
dependent on properties of the run-time loader.  Even more so if you
thrown shared libraries and dlopened modules into the picture.

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