[boost] [serialization] Static data members.

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-22 16:43:32

Many of the problems that CodeWarrior, and True64, have with the 
serialization library  stem from the behavior of CW to not call 
constructors for static data members in one particular class in the 
library. I've come to think that this is standard conforming behavior.

The serialization library relies on a static member of a template class 
being constructed at global initialization time to figure out what all 
the serialized classes are. The problem is that the template class is 
being instantiated implicitly. Which for most compilers also 
instantiates any static members of that template class. It's my 
understanding that this violates 14.7.1.7:

        "The implicit instantiation of a class template does not cause any 
static data members of that class to be implicitly instantiated."

Question I have.. Is my understanding correct? Or is this a bug in CW part?

For reference the code in question is in 
"boost/serialization/void_cast.hpp"..

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/boost/serialization/void_cast.hpp?view=markup
http://tinyurl.com/9s5jb

The template class is void_caster_primitive, and it's instantiated from 
the void_cast_register function at the bottom.

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