Re: Pre-main construction order in modules

On 31.03.2025 17:01, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

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.

Keep in mind that the key thing that makes this seem like gibberish is
the use of precisely defined technical jargon, which is used for the
same reason that jargon is used in many other contexts: it has a more
precisely specified meaning than more informal wording would have had.

Key pieces of jargon: "strongly happens before", "non-initialization",
"odr-use", "translation unit". If there's anything you don't understand
about that clause, it's probably based in unfamiliarity with such phrases.