http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46770
--- Comment #60 from Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz> 2010-12-14 13:25:32 UTC --- > Sure, if you want to play with that I have no principled objections. I only > add > here that we probably have another related PR filed by Ian (is already in CC?) > and that, as far as I know, those priorities don't work everywhere (I know > very > little about init priorities in general, sorry) Definitly the constructor priorities are not supported on non-GNU systems. But we can probably chose iostream implementation based on configure test and fall back into the static constructor code.