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#ifndef StaticConstructors_h
#define StaticConstructors_h

// We need to avoid having static constructors. We achieve this
// with two separate methods for GCC and MSVC. Both methods prevent the static
// initializers from being registered and called on program startup. On GCC, we
// declare the global objects with a different type that can be POD default
// initialized by the linker/loader. On MSVC we use a special compiler feature
// to have the CRT ignore our static initializers. The constructors will never
// be called and the objects will be left uninitialized.
//
// With both of these approaches, we must define and explicitly call an init
// routine that uses placement new to create the objects and overwrite the
// uninitialized placeholders.
//
// This is not completely portable, but is what we have for now without
// changing how a lot of code accesses these global objects.

#ifdef SKIP_STATIC_CONSTRUCTORS_ON_MSVC
// - Assume that all includes of this header want ALL of their static
//   initializers ignored. This is currently the case. This means that if
//   a .cc includes this header (or it somehow gets included), all static
//   initializers after the include will not be executed.
// - We do this with a pragma, so that all of the static initializer pointers
//   go into our own section, and the CRT won't call them. Eventually it would
//   be nice if the section was discarded, because we don't want the pointers.
//   See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7977wcck(VS.80).aspx
#pragma warning(disable:4075)
#pragma init_seg(".unwantedstaticinits")
#endif

#ifndef SKIP_STATIC_CONSTRUCTORS_ON_GCC
    // Define an global in the normal way.
#if COMPILER(MSVC7_OR_LOWER)
#define DEFINE_GLOBAL(type, name) \
    const type name;
#elif COMPILER(WINSCW)
#define DEFINE_GLOBAL(type, name, arg...) \
    const type name;
#else
#define DEFINE_GLOBAL(type, name, ...) \
    const type name;
#endif

#else
// Define an correctly-sized array of pointers to avoid static initialization.
// Use an array of pointers instead of an array of char in case there is some alignment issue.
#if COMPILER(MSVC7_OR_LOWER)
#define DEFINE_GLOBAL(type, name) \
    void * name[(sizeof(type) + sizeof(void *) - 1) / sizeof(void *)];
#elif COMPILER(WINSCW)
#define DEFINE_GLOBAL(type, name, arg...) \
    void * name[(sizeof(type) + sizeof(void *) - 1) / sizeof(void *)];
#else
#define DEFINE_GLOBAL(type, name, ...) \
    void * name[(sizeof(type) + sizeof(void *) - 1) / sizeof(void *)];
#endif
#endif

#endif // StaticConstructors_h