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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: stdio problem 
Cc: rpt@miles.sso.loral.com (Richard Toren), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
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Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 13:05:11 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: What about a static initializer that operates on stdio?  Is this
: now deemed illegal?

At one point I know that accessing stdin,stdout and stderr was well
defined in the C++ language draft.  I've not checked recently.  It is
not well defined (or at least wasn't) if cin, cerr and cout work
because those generally use the global ctor feature and ordering isn't
well defined for those. 

Warner