[PATCH] KGlobal cleanup

[David Faure]

On Monday 21 May 2007, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Monday 21 May 2007, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> >          inline KGlobalPrivate()
> >
> >              : stringDict(0),
> >
> >              locale(0),
> > -            charsets(0),
> > -            staticDeleters(new KStaticDeleterList)
> > +            charsets(0)
> >          {
> > -            qAddPostRoutine(KGlobalPrivate::syncConfigs);
> > +            // make sure all Qt global statics are created here, that way
> > we may use them in the +            // dtor as well
> > +            qrand();
> > +            //qAddPostRoutine(KGlobalPrivate::syncConfigs);
> >          }
> >
> >          inline ~KGlobalPrivate()
> >          {
> > +            //qRemovePostRoutine(KGlobalPrivate::syncConfigs);
> 
> Ups, I actually didn't mean to send this, but now that it's out what do you 
> think of this hack instead of a Qt post routine? The idea is that, since 
> function local statics are destructed in the reverse order in which they were 
> constructed, a call to qrand() in KGlobalPrivate() will ensure that the 
> global static qrand() depends on is still available when ~KGlobalPrivate is 
> called.

This would allow to use KConfig in global object destructors (because KConfig -> QTemporaryFile -> qrand)?
Nice solution then.

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