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MSVC Static Initializers - Decent Stuff

I was digging through a MSVC++ map file for xul.dll. Turns out MSVC++ isn’t as naive about virtual initializers as the GNU toolchain. Initializers are all laid out next to each other. Same goes for what looks like finalizers and exception unwinding stuff. Initializers have an __E prefix and look like this:

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0001:0089b470       ??__E?config@AvmCore@avmplus@@2UConfig@nanojit@@A@@YAXXZ 1089c470 f    CIL library: CIL module
0001:0089b475       ??__EkStaticModules@@YAXXZ 1089c475 f   nsStaticXULComponents.obj
0001:0089b638       ??__E?sSnifferEntries@nsUnknownDecoder@@1PAUnsSnifferEntry@1@A@@YAXXZ 1089c638 f   necko:nsUnknownDecoder.obj

Now if only Microsoft fixed their kernel to do [

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memory-mapped IO

](http://taras.glek.net/blog/2010/04/19/windows-sucks-at-memory-mapped-io-during-startup/) efficiently, it’d be a superior OS for starting Firefox.

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