Re: [Gnucap-devel] Feedback needed, especially non-Linux

[David Fang]

> I'm not well-versed in the source, but are you depending on ordering of
> static globals somehow?

Al,
        Ok, it didn't take long to find various comments about link
ordering: src/Makefile.am, globals.cc, etc... :)
        Link-ordering and global initialization ordering between
translation units are not related; you cannot depend on link ordering to
influence the other.  When it happens to work, consider yourself lucky!
        I'd advise wrapping access to global variables/structures through
some init-once interface, like a function, rather than relying on
ordering.  If you need to be precise about global object lifetime,
consider using a reference-count pointer to manage orderly destruction.
Does this help?

David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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