Another alternative is that you might be looking for the analogy of a static
block in Java. A block of code that is run when the application is loaded.
There is no such thing in C++ but it can be faked by using the constructor of a
static object.
foo.cpp:
struct StaticBlock {
StaticBlock(){
cout << "hello" << endl;
}
}
static StaticBlock staticBlock;
void main(int, char * args[]){
}
HOWEVER. I've been bitten by this before as it's a subtle edge case of the C++
standard. If the static object is not reachable by any code called by main the
constructor of the static object may or may not be called.
I found that with gcc hello will get output and with visual studio it will
not.
