C++ compiler -- does it work?

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Michael J. Smith (smith++at++vsl.ist.ucf.edu)
Mon, 23 Jan 1995 19:26:25 -0500 (EST)

Ok, I know this may be somewhat unrelated to the main focus of this
group, but when I compiled some code under 5.3, I got a cool little
segment fault. I managed to write a small program that produces this
fault and it boils down to a static variable inside a method call.

Is this not supported by the C++ language? Here's the code

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class crash
{
 public:
  crash() {}
  ~crash() {}
  void crashit();
};

void crash::crashit()
{
  static crash tq; // comment out this line and it doesn't crash
// crash tq; // with this line it doesn't crash...
}

void main()
{
  crash q1, q2;
}

// Compile this program with CC crash.C
// run a.out and see a nice seg fault on IRIX5.3 -- dbx says
// Core from signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation violation
//(dbx) > 0 _fini(0x400c2c, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
// ["../patch/c++init.c++":76, 0x400c60]
// 1 <stripped>() [<stripped>, 0xfb6b3d4]
//
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If anyone can explain this I'd love to hear it. I suppose I can use
another technique, but this exact code will run without any problems on
any of the eariler compilers...

Any answers are welcomed....

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