// problem is that a Statistic<> object gets destroyed, which ends up calling
// 'GetLibSupportInfoOutputFile()' (below), which calls this function.
// LibSupportInfoOutputFilename used to be a global variable, but sometimes it
-// would get destroyed before the Statistic, causing havoc to ensue.
+// would get destroyed before the Statistic, causing havoc to ensue. We "fix"
+// this by creating the string the first time it is needed and never destroying
+// it.
static std::string &getLibSupportInfoOutputFilename() {
- static std::string LibSupportInfoOutputFilename;
- return LibSupportInfoOutputFilename;
+ static std::string *LibSupportInfoOutputFilename = new std::string();
+ return *LibSupportInfoOutputFilename;
}
namespace {