What the...!? Weird BCC/Dinkumware error

[Duthomhas]

I'm still messing with locales and facets.

Can someone explain this one to me?

The following code does not work with Borland C++ 5.82:

...
#include "utf8_locale.hpp"

const std::locale utf8_locale(        // A global object 
  std::locale::classic(),
  new duthomhas::unicode::utf8_facet
  );

int main()
  {
  wofstream outf;
  outf.imbue( utf8_locale );
  ...

But the following does:

...
#include "utf8_locale.hpp"

int main()
  {
  const std::locale utf8_locale(       // A local object 
    std::locale::classic(),
    new duthomhas::unicode::utf8_facet
    );

  wofstream outf;
  outf.imbue( utf8_locale );
  ...

Is there some sort of magic trick to locales that I am missing? Why won't it work for a global locale but only a local locale?

(It worked perfectly both ways using the MinGW GCC.) It also took me forever to figure out that this was what I had done differently from the (very simple) example I was working off of.

Thank you for your time.

[helios]

Perhaps some sort of problem resolving dependencies between static objects?

[Duthomhas]

My best guess is that the Borland compiler hasn't initialized the classic locale before main() is called...