C++ Static String Causes Segmentation Fault

[Theodore Papadopoulo]

Ben Atkinson wrote:
> Thanks for the response, Ian.   With an eye toward correcting the problem
> in my source code, does C++ make any guarantees about global
> constructors in the same source?
>   
A more robust scheme is to create a function (or static member function) 
that returns the
static string, and using this function to get the string...

class XXX {
...
    static std:string& mystring() { static std::string foo = "whatever"; 
return foo; }

...
};