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Started by Uphoreum August 12, 2006 11:49 PM

20 comments, last by Fruny 17 years, 7 months ago

jpetrie

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August 26, 2006 09:39 PM

It has nothing to do with the stack; statically-allocated objects such as globals are not stored on the stack.

Fruny

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August 26, 2006 09:43 PM

Quote:Original post by Rainault
Is that because of the FIFO nature of the stack?

No. It's also true of variables that are statically allocated (i.e. globals) or variables that got constructed in the same scope. Destroying variables in reverse order is the simplest way to take care of any dependence issues. If B depends on A, B must be created after A and destroyed before it.

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