ordering of constructors

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:48:26AM -0700, Matt Austern wrote:
> But it's a little more complicated than that, since some of this is done
> by the dynamic loader and not by the compiler.

That's normal.


> On OS X, if a program uses dynamic libraries (and I'm not just talking
> about programmatically loaded libraries), we have lazy binding and
> some initialization is delayed until after the start of main().

That's less normal.  But still sane.  :-)


> Libraries that the program manually loads and unloads are a whole
> other mess.

I will continue to pretend that those don't exist as long as each of the
C++ and POSIX committees continue to pretend that the other doesn't exist...

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