Hi Robert, What is the reason for having both dynamically_initialized::instance and dynamically_initialized::get_instance ? The reason I am asking is because my program is crashing and I tracked it down to dynamically_initialized::instance being used to before it is initialized with dynamically_initialized::get_instance. It a compiler bug, but it seems to me it can be worked around by removing dynamically_initialized::instance . I am compiling with msvc8.sp1 Regards, Nikolay Mladenov