Thread: Double constructing of a class

Ok, first of all, nice forum .. << i'm new here.
Now my question... i got my class: cCountryList. At the beginning of my application, i declare a static class of it: static cCountryList CounryList;

In the constructor i print a message to indicate if the construction was succesful or not. but now when i start my application, i found out that the constructs my class 2 times. and keeps it in the memory. at least... the memory could be reserved because of stack expension? well.. i'm curious... because the construction of my class take something about 5 seconds, so the whole startup scenario takes in 11 seconds. and it waste's something like 15 mb for each instance. I'm using the VC8 Compiler with Native c++.

Can anyone help? would be really great

nope nothing, i think i've found the problem, however its not really logical.. however. i had declared this object in a header witch is included in every other header file. however with #pragma once, it should just load once because of my structure... well, i found a place else to declare it, and now it just constructs once. probally just a bug in my file structure. anyway thanks for the answers

thanks for the answer, i'm surely going to look for some good faqs about this. i know loads about programming ( no ego ), but i'm really unknown to this kind of things, working with big projects, and that is what i'm doing right now. anyone knows a good article/FAQ or something else about this subject. it would really help me out, because loads of info written on the internet is written by peaple wo dont know much about the subject. i'd lile to have a fine source, i'm really eager to learn. thanks again!