On Sat, 31 May 2008 01:54:45 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ISO/IEC 14882:1998 section 3.7.1 paragraph 2. > > "If an object of static storage duration has initialization or a > destructor with side effects, it shall not be eliminated even if > it appears to be unused, except that a class object or its copy > may be eliminated as specified in 12.8." > > Unchanged in the 2003 revision. > > Is that related to linking? I don't think so.
Linking with as-needed is the stage in which the elimination occurs, and as-needed is the cause of the elimination. So yes, it is related. > Still, PE and ELF are older than the first C++ spec so, IFF your > reading of this chapter is correct, C++ is broken by design. Not at all. Read "The Design and Evolution of C++", and you shall see that requiring changes to the linker where necessary for sensible behaviour was considered acceptable, and with good reason. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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