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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:28:32 +0000
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Subject: Re: dlclose not calling destructors of static variables.
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On 29/01/2010 15:23, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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
>    

Ah o.k. So is there any documentation on how Cygwin should do things 
differently? Should atexit be used for both executables and library 
static destructors? Is there a reason for not using __cxa_atexit?

Many thanks,

Andy

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