On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Andy Falanga (afalanga) <afalanga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have one question further. I tried using this approach because of what I read in the GCC manuals, "Functions with these attributes are useful for initializing data that is used implicitly during the execution of the program. (taken from http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html)" I wish only to understand more fully, if initialization of data, as in this case, is so problematic, why is it such a good thing? Is it because my data variable wasn't truly global, but instead translation-unit-only? What am I missing from what the manual is describing? > The C/C++ languages do not guarantee order of initialization. If translation unit A needs a static global from translation unit B, there's no guarantee that B's static variable will be initialized before A's use of it. Jeff
