Hi Corey, > I knew there was no way around that -- but I thought there might be > some way to do it, in some order. As a general C/C++ solution, no. There is a GCC mechanism that could help: -finit-priority __attribute__((init_priority(n))) Depending on how dependent you like your code on compiler extensions. >Do you know of any difference in this area with the OSX gcc? I'm not aware if XCode 2.1 / GCC 4.0 on OS X has any particular caveats other than the usual suspects applicable to all platforms. HTH, --Eljay