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On 29/01/2010 14:30, Andrew West wrote:

> Which brings me on to the bigger problem, the static variables are
> registered with atexit rather than with __cxa_atexit which seems to be a
> violation of the C++ standard (1).

  That's not the C++ standard; that is part of the cxx-abi.  Since so much of
cxx-abi assumes ELF, we implement things slightly differently on Cygwin.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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