[Bug c++/61991] Destructors not always called for statically initialized thread_local objects
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61991 --- Comment #2 from Andrew Pinski --- GCC, clang and ICC all have this same behavior in that if y is not used, the y is not initialized or deconstructed.
[Bug c++/61991] Destructors not always called for statically initialized thread_local objects
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61991 --- Comment #1 from Ryan Johnson scovich at gmail dot com --- C++14 (N3652 [1]) specifically alters the Standard to state that a thread_local object with static or constexpr initialization may have a non-trivial destructor (implying that such a destructor should actually run): Variables with static storage duration (3.7.1) or thread storage duration (3.7.2) shall be zero-initialized (8.5) before any other initialization takes place. A constant initializer for an object o is an expression that is a constant expression, except that it may also invoke constexpr constructors for o and its subobjects even if those objects are of non-literal class types [ Note: such a class may have a non-trivial destructor ]. [1] https://isocpp.org/files/papers/N3652.html