Aargh! I should look at nonstandard features that I don't use before I say they solve problems. GCC's construcotrs and destructors (outside of C++ code) are l

Aargh! I should look at nonstandard features that I don't use before I say they solve problems. GCC's construcotrs and destructors (outside of C++ code) are limited to globals and statics. Marking a function a constructor guarantees it's automatically called before main(), and marking a function a destructor guarantees it's automatically called after main() completes.