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When are global objects constructed and destructed by Visual C++?

October 17, 2014 Oct 17, 2014 10/17/14

Raymond Chen

Today we're going to fill in the following chart: The C++ language specification provides some leeway to implementations on when global static objects are constructed. It can construct the object before begins, or it construct the object on demand according to complicated rules. You can read [basic.start.init] for the gory details. Let'...