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Hello,
the following program fragment is part of the GNU libg++.
it tests correct working, but it doesn't work on my machine yet.
the instance static_foo defined before main() doesn't get initialized,
nb_foos() returns 0. When I put this line into main(), nb_foos()
returns 1. 2 is expected...
My question : from where should the constructor get called when
it is a global object like static_foo. Do I need special c++
startup files? Is it somewhere in __main() ?
I'm using gcc-2.5.7 irix5 with a few modifications for my machine.

Sebastian
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// main program for Class Foo
....
#include "Foo.h"
... class Foo
... includes a static var foos set to 0, incremented by constructor,
... decremented by destructor, available via nb_foos()

extern "C" void __init_start();

extern Foo f(void);
extern void g(void);

void 
__init_start()
{
    Foo::init_foo();
... does not get called, this is correct ...
}

static Foo static_foo( "static_foo"); ...doesn't work... 
... from which function the constructor should get called ???
main() 
{ 
    assert (Foo::nb_foos() == 2);
    Foo automatic_foo( "automatic_foo"); ...works...
... some more stuff also working good...
}