corrupted array in namespace

[jmpep]

Hello to all,

I have a problem that is driving me crazy with an array loosing its values. Any help will be very very welcome...

Let start from the beginning. I am porting a graphics engine written in C++ (Irrlicht) to S60 3rd Ed. FP1. In order to debug it, I was using it as a normal application by providing a test main function and generating an EXE. It is working well on that situation. However, a estrange problem has arises when using a stand-alone EXE and the engine as a DLL.

The engine has a big array (8266 chars) declared and initialized in a namespace (irr::gui, concretely), in a file called BuilInFont.h. That array is accesed from a method of a class in the same namespace defined in another file (CGUIEnvironment.cpp) that includes the header file.
The problem is that, when accessed, the values of the array has changed. By debugging I have been able to see that the values of the array are wrong before any of my code has been executed.

To make things worse, if I remove that array from the header file or initialize it to zero, I get an error in some code generated by the compiler (GCCE), concretely in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0, which makes no sense at all to me.

So, to sum up, the situation is:

BuiltInFont.h

namespace irr
{
namespace gui
{
u8 BuiltInFontData[] =
{
0x42, 0x4d, 0x4a, 0x20, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
/* a lot of elements more */
};
}};

CGUIEnviroment.cpp

namespace irr
{
namespace gui
{
void CGUIEnvironment::loadBuiltInFont()
{
	const c8* filename = "#DefaultFont";
	io::IReadFile* file = io::createMemoryReadFile(BuiltInFontData, BuiltInFontDataSize, filename, false);
/* in this last line, BuiltInFontData[0] is equals to 0x8A. Always. */
/* more code */
}}}

• The values of BuiltInFontData are changed by the time my code starts.
• If I set BuiltInFontData to zeros, run-time error "exception: 0" in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0.
• If I remove the array, the same error.

Thanks you very much for taking your time to read all this.

[Paul.Todd]

Its probably related to this issue:
http://www3.symbian.com/faq.nsf/AllB...7?OpenDocument

[jmpep]

Its probably related to this issue:
http://www3.symbian.com/faq.nsf/AllB...7?OpenDocument

Thanks you very much for your quick response. At least now I have something to research about. The thing is that there is more writable static data in the DLL and, as far as I know, it is working properly. I'll check it.