Re: BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

[Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt at princeton dot edu>]

> Can you post the bug{1,2}.cpp files? I would guess that its not a bug, 
> but rather you are relying on an undefined order of static 
> initialization that happens to do what you want sometimes but not 
> others. It's impossible to say for sure without seeing the source files, 
> though.

Oh I see, you did attach them, in the shell script. So the issue is that 
you are declaring a local static variable in an inline function, which 
is then referenced in multiple translation units. As far as I can 
remember, this is supposed to work OK, but I know a lot of compilers, 
not just gcc, get it wrong, because the standard is different than the 
ARM on this point. The bug was probably fixed in gcc 4.0, which is not 
yet available on cygwin. (You can verify that a lot of things will 
change this behavior, for instance if you just add a default constructor 
to Element() with an empty body, your example will work as you expect.) 
Anyway, for portability, you are probably better off not relying on any 
compiler getting this right, and you should just define the root() 
function non-inline in its own translation unit. That being said, gcc is 
clearly messing up here, as you would expect its most likely failure to 
be generating multiple copies of the static variable, not too few.

This isn't really cygwin-specific, you will get the same thing if you 
use the native windows MinGW compiler (ie, by using g++ -mno-cygwin). 
You're probably better off asking around in comp.lang.c++, comp.std.c++, 
or a gcc-specific mailing list, as those people will know more.

-Lewis


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