How to deal with global-constructor warning in clang?

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Here is a simpler case that triggers the same warning:

class A {
public:
  // ...
  A();
};

A my_A; // triggers said warning


test.cpp:7:3: warning: declaration requires a global constructor [-Wglobal-constructors]
A my_A; // triggers said warning
  ^~~~
1 warning generated.

This is perfectly legal and safe C++.

However for every non-trivial global constructor you have, launch time of your application suffers. The warning is simply a way of letting you know about this potential performance problem.

You can disable the warning with -Wno-global-constructors. Or you can change to a lazy initialization scheme like this:

A&
my_A()
{
    static A a;
    return a;
}

which avoids the issue entirely (and suppresses the warning).

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