Re: Pre-main construction order in modules

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:39:53 +0300
Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> wibbled:

On 31.03.2025 12:09, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
"If [initialization] is deferred, it strongly happens before any
non-initialization odr-use of any non-inline function or non-inline
variable defined in the same translation unit as the variable to be
initialized."

Who writes this stuff? Its borderline gibberish.

The keyword here is "non-initialization use". If you access your myobj
from main() it would be a non-initialization use, which is guaranteed to
trigger the needed initialization if needed, so everything will work fine.

Not necessarily. What it the constructor of one object opened a network
socket but that object wasn't touched again until something else in the
program tried to loop back to that socket?