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In <8903301644.AA01395@toadwar.UCAR.EDU> gerry wiener writes:
}I believe the following program should print
}
}Initialize
}Hello, world
}Clean up
}
}Instead it prints
}
}Hello, world
}Clean up
}
}If the definition of y is placed inside main(), then the program prints
}
}Initialize
}Hello, world
}Clean up

	[followed by a program that has a class constructor
	 that uses cout and then declares a global instance
	 of the class]

	The gotcha here is that 'cout' is also a class object and has to
be initialized. Since you don't have any guarantee about order of
initialization of global objects, it is possible that object-y's
constructor is called before cout's is. If you had used 'printf' instead
of streams, you would have seen that y's constructor was in fact called.
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