On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 17:47 +0100, Chris Vine wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:58:24 -0400 (EDT) > Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > [snip] > > I might have been a bit sloppy with my words, but the following C++ > > code, in a shared library: > > > > MyClass my_object; > > > > Needs to have the MyClass constructor for the static object my_object > > run before the main() function in your application. This is identical > > to attribute constructor (in fact, implementation wise thats how this > > works in C++). > > Ah, I understand you. And of course, if not in a shared library also.
There's also the fact that GLib's use of constructors is very local, and if it really came to the point where one needed to make it work on some old version of HP-UX or whatever, at worst one could hack up a patch to just call the constructor code early in main() of whatever program fairly easily. Were we to make pervasive use of the cleanup attribute, then someone attempting to remove the dependency would have to patch (in a nontrivial way) *every function* that used it. It'd be a significant amount of error-prone work. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list