Re: Static const member initialization

consider the following small program:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

class C1 {
    std::string name;

public:
    C1(const std::string& name_arg) : name(name_arg) { }

    const std::string& get_name() const { return name; }
};

class C2 : public C1 {
    static const std::string NAME;

public:
    C2() : C1(NAME) { }
};

const std::string C2::NAME = "test";

int main()
{
    C2 obj;
    std::cout << obj.get_name() << std::endl;
    return 0;
}
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I have tried it with two different compilers. Both compiled
it, but only one of the executables works. The other one
crashes with a segmentation fault; debugging shows that C2's
NAME member is uninitialized when C2() is called. Is this a
linker error? I would assume that a static member of a class
must be initialized before its first object is created. Who's
wrong here?