static initialization order fiasco
- by Happy Mittal
I was reading about SIOF from a book and it gave an example :
//file1.cpp
extern int y;
int x=y+1;
//file2.cpp
extern int x;
y=x+1;
Now My question is :
In above code..will following things happen ?
1. while compiling file1.cpp, compiler leaves y as it is i.e doesn't allocate storage for it.
2. compiler allocates storage for x, but doesn't initialize it.
3. While compiling file2.cpp, compiler leaves x as it is i.e doesn't allocate storage for it.
4. compiler allocates storage for y, but doesn't initialize it.
5. While linking file1.o and file2.o, now let file2.o is initialized first, so now:
Does x gets initial value of 0? or doesn't get initialized?
