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Hi,

I have a C program which dynamically loads a shared library (.so) on
SunOS. The shared library is developed in C++ and has a C wrapper.
There are "cout" calls in the library. Please see the illustration 
below.

The .so is loaded and the wrapper gets correctly called. But
when the control comes to the first "cout" statement of the C++ code, I 
get a core dump. I can neither change my C program with the main() 
routine nor replace it with a C++ program with main().

How have others handled the problem ? Any ideas ? My guess is that
static initialization of the C++ library is not happening. How
to force it ?

BTW, I have tried this with both GNU and Centerline compilers.

Regards,
Biplav 

PS:

To illustrate the scenario, 

Program in C: C_prog_with_main.c() 
              ------------------

      main() {
	...
      call_c_wrapper();
	...
      }

Wrapper in C : C_wrapper.c
               -----------

      extern "C" {

      call_c_wrapper() {
      
         cplus_class::do_something();

      }
      };

C++ code: cplus_part.c
          ------------

      #include <iostream.h>
      ...
      cplus_class::do_something() {

        cout << " I cause all the trouble " << endl;
      }

      .....

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