global objects not initializing -- GCC 3.2.3

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi Nick,

 >I'm looking for the reason why global objects defined in 
statically-linked libraries are not initialized at run time.

Your global object named x is not used in main.cpp, so it is not being 
included (sort of like the opposite "dead code stripping" -- "live code 
inclusion").  And hence, is not being constructed.

To force all the symbols (and their corresponding objects) to be 
incorporated into your main.out from your archive regardless of use, change 
your compilation like this:

g++ -g -I. main.cpp -L. -Wl,--whole-archive -lTest -Wl,--no-whole-archive 
-o main.out

HTH,
--Eljay