(ref.doc)jason 180395

From: [email protected] (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: Implicit constructors and destructors
Date: 18 Mar 1995 13:34:14 GMT
Organization: Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA


  3.6.2  Initialization of non-local objects          [basic.start.init]

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  This is still under active discussion by the committee.
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1 The initialization of  nonlocal  static  objects  (_basic.stc_)  in  a
  translation  unit  is  done  before  the  first use of any function or
  object  defined  in  that  translation  unit.   Such   initializations
  (_dcl.init_,  _class.static_,  _class.ctor_, _class.expl.init_) can be
  done before the first statement of main() or deferred to any point  in
  time  before  the  first  use  of a function or object defined in that
  translation unit.  The default initialization of all static objects to
  zero  (_dcl.init_)  is  performed  before  any  other  initialization.
  Static objects initialized with  constant  expressions  (_expr.const_)
  are  initialized before any dynamic (that is, run-time) initialization
  takes place.  The order of initialization of nonlocal  static  objects
  defined in the same translation unit is the order in which their defi-
  nition appears in the translation unit.  No further order  is  imposed
  on  the  initialization  of  objects from different translation units.