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From: Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pre-main construction order in modules
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:56:27 +0200
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Am 30.03.2025 um 18:22 schrieb Mr Flibble:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:21:14 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:
> 
>> On 3/30/25 4:57 AM, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>> I was curious about the order in which objects get constructed in
>>> modules before main gets called. It seems with both Clang and gcc its
>>> the order in which the modules were linked together to form the
>>> runnable binary so if the link order was m1.o m2.o then anything in m1
>>> would get constructed first.
>>> Vice verca if you switch the order.
>>>
>>> Is this codified in the standard or is it left up to compiler and
>>> linker writers to decide how they order this?
>>>
>>>
>> It is left explicitly undefined in the Standard.
> 
> No, it is *unspecified* not *undefined*.

LOL - idiot