[openssl-users] Guidance on proper usage of OpenSSL_add_all_digests

[chris.gray at kiffer.be]

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Neptune <pdrotter at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> [...]
> You can perform initialization in a static C++ ctor, but it can be
> tricky because the C++ committee has never addressed the problem of
> initialization order across translation units. Also see What's the
> "static initialization order fiasco"?
> (http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq/static-init-order.html).

So static initialisation in Java is not the most capricious and
error-prone mechanism ever invented?  My faith in mankind takes yet
another knock.