static constructors/destructors and atexit

[Kamil Iskra]

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Joe Buck wrote:

> > As someone mentioned, this is not standards-conforming.  The standard
> > requires that local static destruction be interleaved with atexit()
> > callbacks and this won't do that.
> We can conform to the standard simply by using atexit() to do local
> static destruction.
[snip]

Excuse me, but why complicate it so much? Why can't we simply make the
compiler replace the user-level atexit() calls with our own atexit() with
no limits? This way we would conform to the standard, right?

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