Aww, was hoping for some insight on global variable initialization order. It's something I've been curious about how different vendors order things with linking.

[–] addie 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Essentially at random, and it may change with build flags, compiler version updates, static v. dynamic linking, and who knows what else?" Can't rely on it, I'm afraid. What you can rely on is static init of local variables:

  static auto this_is_safe = QuilanType{};
  return this_is_safe;
}```
... Which will always give you a properly initialised 'global'.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

My C brain does not like static auto