Re: style question: functions versus namespace statics
On Jan 6, 12:31 am, Ulrich Eckhardt <dooms...@knuut.de> wrote:
Andrew wrote:
I have currently having some trouble converting code from static
libraries to DLLs. I get missing symbols for class statics and statics
scoped to namespaces.
These are very different beasts, the meaning of static differs depending
on whether it is used at namespace scope, class scope or function scope.
Also, exporting things from a DLL requires some system-specific care, but
for these issues this is the wrong group. You shouldn't have to
restructure the code itself for it though.
I have converted one of the class statics to a function which is
implemented via a Meyers singleton. This solved one case of missing
symbol [...]
Again, this shouldn't have been necessary!
I think that OP is running up against the static initialization
order fiasco. I know that I've had class statics not get initialized
before use in actual practice when I moved code to a library
(either static or DLL).
I suspect something like the initialization trick for cout/cin/cerr
might be the OP's best bet.
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