Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.43 - Exception before main() is called

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.43 - Exception before main() is called
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-12 11:20:11

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On Wednesday 12 May 2010, Rob Yull wrote:
> I recently upgrade from boost 1.42 to 1.43.  All of a sudden, the project I
> was working on seems to be throwing an exception before main() is called. 
> I was able to reproduce this error in the example below.  Using 1.42, it
> executes just fine.  Using 1.43, an exception is thrown before main is
> reached.

I would guess you are trying to lock the static mutex before its constructor 
has run.  I believe the only guarantee C++ provides wrt static initialization 
order is that POD types will be initialized before non-POD types.  This link 
might be helpful:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.12
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