[Interest] [Qt-interest] Calling qRegisterMetaType on static initialization

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 24 de January de 2012 22.21.42, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
> p.s. Btw the last time I asked a question in the c++ comp group (really
> years ago) related to "shared libs" I was told: "That's not part of the C++
> standard, dude - go read the man pages of your compiler/linker!"

The C++ standard does define what static initalisation and dynamic 
initialisation are, what runs at what order, what isn't ordered and even how 
to undo (destruct).

What it doesn't deal with and is sometimes important is the case of plugin 
loading. The plugin's static variables also suffer static and dynamic 
initialisation, but the program is already running at this point and there are 
even possibly multiple threads.

That, of course, assumes that the compiler, linker and runtime do implement 
the standard correctly, which isn't always a valid assumption.

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