Question about static class objects

I am puzzled why this fails (Root 5.16 or 5.18, on Fedora Core 8).

	file zap.C contains:
		class Zap {
		public:
		        static TList list;
		};
		TList Zap::list;



	$ root -l

	root [0] .L zap.C
	root [1] Zap::list.Clear();
	 *** Break *** segmentation violation [....]

But this works:


	$ root -l

	root [0] TList zap;
	root [1] zap.Clear();
	root [2] .q

Any suggestions how to work around this?

Tom Roberts Received on Mon May 26 2008 - 20:12:43 CEST