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How do I prevent the “static initialization order fiasco”?

April 26, 2017static initialization order fiasco

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How do I prevent the “static initialization order fiasco”?

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Use the “construct on first use” idiom, which simply means to wrap your static object inside a function. For example, suppose you have two classes, Fred and Barney. There is a global Fred object called x, and a global Barney object called y.