Hi there,

Can anyone help me out on the following question:
What is the order of creation of static members of a class, and how can it
be modified?

I need to know this due to the following:
- I have a MFC-class derived from CWinApp, CMyApp
- the exe-wizard makes one global variable 'CMyApp theApp'
- this causes the constructor of CMyApp to be called
- member variable of CMyApp is another class, CAnotherClass
- CAnotherClass has static CString class
- this CString class is assigned a value in the contsructor of CAnotherClass
- here my program crashes, due to the fact that my CString class is not
initialised yet (is has a NULL pointer to which it assigns allocated memory)

Hope you can help me out.

Thanks,
Harvey Stoelinga




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In article <7q2t5f$k68$1@zonnetje.nl.uu.net>, H. Stoelinga <info@cp.nl>
writes
>
>Hi there,
>
>Can anyone help me out on the following question:
>What is the order of creation of static members of a class, and how can it
>be modified?

If defined in the same translation unit, in the order in which they are
declared.  If you have defined them in different TUs any order the
implementation elects, including entirely arbitrary.


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