How EGCS with multi-threaded compliance?

[David Lucas]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>Nope, because zero-initialization takes place before any dynamic
>initialization.

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> No, the bss section is initialized to zeroes even before the
> application (or the DL, resp) gets control.  You must have very little
> confidence in the competence of the people developing Unix systems.
> 

First off, I prefer Unix over any other OS.  Secondly, my comments
earlier where in general, compilers do not implement the same nor
guarentee order of initialization.  Thirdly, where in the C++ specs do
you read that zero-initialization takes place on anything other than
simple types?  

I have not tested egcs to know how it works.  But you are all correct in
saying that a real compiler does not have this issues in static space. 
But, I have ran into some commercial vendors that deny this behavior and
had to get them to support proper initialization of static space.  The
problem of initialization can get worse when you introduce shared
libraries that have static initialization requirements.  It was a
warning  and am glad you all have not had the same experience with this
as I have.  Maybe if I get a chance, I will send our a snippet of code
that can help explain this better.

Thanks,
Dave



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