From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Writing to a file from dtor doesn't work!
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 18:22:50 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
[...]
> > move two lines of code. *Are* files Supposed to work in destructors?
> 
> IMHO, people who use C++ extensively should answer this.  There might
> be conflicts with objects that use I/O streams and are destructed by
> global destructors.  DJ?
> 
> Is it at all safe to assume that file handles beyond the 3 standard
> streams are available in the global destructor?  After all, they *are*
> run after `main' returned, so at least in principle, this is a
> never-never land for the application, no?
Hmm. The destructor is usually called after the scope 
of the variable end. So an object in main is deleted
after main, but _before_ (IMHO) the libc cleanup. 
So I would think this is a bug. 

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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