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[c.s.c++ moderator's note: This thread has drifted away from the issue
of how the C++ standard should address initialization of global static
data.  I suggest that further discussion be conducted in
comp.lang.c++.moderated.  mha]

Jeffrey C. Gealow wrote:

In article <4jckdc$ad6@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> clamage@Eng.Sun.COM
(Steve Clamage) writes:

   I believe a reasonable solution to the problem of initialization of
   non-local static data is not to use non-local static data!

   Instead of a static data object or static class data member, use a
   function with a local static object.

But this adds the overhead of the function call mechanism to every use
of the object.


This may not be appropriate for this forum, but I have also found that
it will cause the heap to be corrupted if such a function is called in
a driver DLL under Win NT 3.51 and VC 4.0, although I have no idea
why.  Global statics don't seem to have the same limitation.

Regards,

Randal.
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