FYI on private static object construction

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:27:48AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:03:40AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>>It appears from discussion on the gcc list that private static
>>objects in C++ functions are constructed when they are encountered
>>in program flow.  E.g.:
>>
>>So I would recommend that in Cygwin such objects be moved out of
>>functions to global scope, to avoid threading issues.
>
>What functions are you talking about?  Private static functions are
>unsafe in a threaded application by default.

Sorry.  Make that "private static variables".

cgf