From: "Andreas Bierhals" <bierhals AT studserv DOT stud DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: VERY STRANGE PROBLEM...
Date: 19 Oct 1997 12:12:33 GMT
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Hi Jason!

If I understood you well, you have (i) two classes, A and B,
and (ii) two files, a.hpp and a.cpp. 
The declaration of class A is in a.hpp, while its definition is
in a.cpp. However, the class B is declared AND defined in
a.cpp in order to be hidden. Furthermore you defined a static
instantiation of B in a.cpp with a fixed size-Argument for
the constructor.

I played around a little with this configuration and found
out that sometimes, the order of invoking the constructors
of A and B may be wrong (i.e. The constructor of A is invoked
BEFORE the one of class B).
I have attached to files, "test.h" and "test.cc" which illustrate
this problem. To compile them, type:

gcc -o test.exe test.cc

Before compiling, there are two comment lines in test.cc 
(line 26 and line 48)
which look like
"// ##########", and directly after them "// A testClass(...)".
One of the two instantiations of A must be activated before
compiling.

Invoking the two versions of test.exe (with the different positions of
the line "A testClass(...)" should illustrate the pitfall, that I
suppose to occur in your program.

                    Sincerely,

             Andreas Bierhals
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end

begin 600 test.h
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end