From kde-devel  Thu Jun 29 09:57:23 2000
From: Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:57:23 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Static objects are evil.
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=96227294206601

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> Static objects in DSOs (shared libraries) are not very well supported and
> currently cause segmentation faults on exit, after returning from main(),
> if the DSO containing the static object was unloaded (with dlclose) by the
> program.

And on some platforms, you have no guarantee that the object will be 
constructed when you access it.

-- 
						Guillaume
						http://www.telegraph-road.org

 
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