Re: strange problem

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote:

> I'm writing on a program [C++] for about six month. Recently I tried to 
> switch from my hand coded makefiles to autoconf/automake.  I removed all my 
> makefiles, replaced them with the according Makefile.am's and managed to 
> build my program with ./configure; make after two days. So far, so good. Now 
> the problem is, that the resulting executable contains lot's of bugs - bugs 
> which didn't occur with my hand crafted make files. I tried to track them

One thing to be aware of is that C++ only assures static 
initialization order at the translation unit (per source file) level. 
Static initialization includes global variables. If the files are 
linked somewhat differently, you may end up depending on something 
which has not intialized yet.

Bob
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