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From: "Guido S." <sassi AT uni DOT de>
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Subject: GCC 3.0.4 singleton/factory pattern
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:50:44 +0100
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Hi,

It seems that the handling of static/global objects has changed from
3.0.3 to 3.0.4

I am using a singleton pattern, where I have multiple classes inherited
from a a common baseclass, each having a static 'Base *Create()' member
function.

at global level in each translation unit I then create a dummy object
which registers the childclass' Create() function in a factory database.

so basically i have a factory

class F
{
    RegisterCreate( funcptr, string )
    map< funcptr, string >
}

class Base
{
    static Base *Create():
}

---------
and in another file:

class Registrator {
    Registrator() { F::RegisterCreate( ThisChild::Create, "dummy" ) };
}

namespace {
    Registrator reg;
}

class ThisChild
{
    static Base * Create();
}


actually I using templates to do the registartor classes. but i left
them out to lessen comlexity.

so actually Registrator() should be called for each translation unit
which registers Create functions. This was true for 3.0.3 but with 3.0.4
it just doesn't get called, no matter if I declare the registrator
object in an unnamed namespace, as a static object or just plain gloabal
(there are no nameclashes by the way)

but if I register a command in the translation of main() it _gets_
called.

If I interpret the ISO standard right, the way 3.0.3 did it was the
correct one, and 3.0.4 ignores the standard on this topic.

I am just asking on this list, to confirm my suspicions before i ask on
the GCC list, and perhaps get the chance to get a workaround for this
problem until it gets fixed sometime.

I know that this looks complicated, but I did my best to cut it down to
the essential parts :)

Thanks in advance

Guido S.