Re: strange problem

[Antonio Coralles]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> 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.

Well, this is an interesting aspect. While I don't use any global 
variables [except for constants], I have static class members. I'll try 
to check that .... thanks !

antonio