Re: Problem using STL list and map objects as static member variables

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:56:46 -0400
Message-ID:
<e9r10h$sqq$1@news.datemas.de>
Bit byte wrote:

I am writing a small parser object. I need to store keywords etc in
lsts. Because this data is to be shared by all instances of my parser
class, I have declared the variable as class variables (i.e. statics).

//declarations in parser class (private section)
static list<string> m_keywords, m_symbols_used;
static map<string, myParser::FuncData> m_mapped_funcs ;

I have initialization code like this:

m_symbols_used.clear();

//loadup keywords
m_keywords.clear()
m_keywords.push_back(ABC) ;
m_keywords.push_back(CDE) ;

...

I obviously can't place this in the constructor since they are
statics - (actually, I tried but I had linkage errors). Any ideas as
to how to initialize these variales ?


What you usually do is have a global dummy variable of type 'int' or any
other, and initialise it from a function, inside which you will put your
class-wide member manipulation.

V
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