Libraries and glocal constructors

[Greg Galloway]

I've written a simulation library on top of PVM in C++ which I'm compiling
with EGCS 1.0.2.  The library has bindings for C, C++, FORTRAN, and Ada.
I intentionally stayed away from declaring any static global objects
which would need global constructors so that they library could be linked
with a non-C++ compiler.  I am using standard library classes string,
ifstream, ofstream, and various STL containers.  Any global objects are
new'd and accessed via a pointer.

Are there any global objects in the standard library which would still
require a global constructor/destructor which would not get initialized
properly when linked with a non-C++ compiler?

Is this addressed by the standard?  Is it library implementation dependent?

Thanks,
Greg
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Gregory L. Galloway
Research Scientist I

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