[Xorp-cvs] XORP cvs commit: xorp/policy/common

[Bruce M Simpson]

Andrea Bittau wrote:
> Log message:
> 	Ever heard of the "static initialization order fiasco"?  Well, on Mac OS X,
> 	dispatcher.cc's static stuff would get initialized first.  This would tweak
> 	static variables in register_operations.cc.  Then, register_operatoins.cc's
> 	static variables would get initialized, getting rid of the previous tweaks.
>   

I've noticed gcc 4.3 occasionally emits incorrect code for static 
initializers on FreeBSD. I ran into this when attempting to port 
VirtualBox earlier this week.

It seems that it tries to insert a reference to a local symbol which is 
in fact defined but prefixed with $, which the linker then cannot resolve.

It would be interesting to try with llvm-gcc, however its toolchain 
still requires manual build, there's no packaging for it yet.