Re: [dcplusplus-devel] Fw: patch: let windows draw ListView arrows

[Jacek S. <arn...@gm...>]

> Unfortunately, this introduces a dependency on the ordering of C++ static 
> initialisers in separate translation units - which is undefined by the C++ 
> spec, as far as I can see.
didn't think of that..

> The simplest, but less than ideal, fix I've found is to move the common 
> control check in the Seed constructor into WidgetListView::create. Better 
> ideas welcome - especially ones which don't do the check on every list view 
> creation!
usually a static (member) function that returns a reference to a static local variable does the
trick and initializes just once in natural order...
> 
> Note that the most likely reason this has affected me and not others is that 
> I'm probably the only one building with MSVC. I am only to assume GCC is 
> being lucky here, as I can't find any indication that it's actually a bug in 
> either compiler, it's just undefined behaviour, which is a right pain.
> 
yup

/J