I am writing some code that has a very large number of reasonably simple objects and I would like them the be created at compile time. I would think that a compiler would be able to do this, but I have not been able to figure out how.

In C I could do the the following:

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct data_s {
    int a;
    int b;
    char *c;
} info;

info list[] = {
    1, 2, "a",
    3, 4, "b",
};

main()
{
   int i;
   for (i = 0; i < sizeof(list)/sizeof(*list); i++) {
     printf("%d %s\n", i, list[i].c);
   }
}

Using #C++* each object has it constructor called rather than just being layed out in memory.

#include <iostream>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;

class Info {
    const int a;
    const int b;
    const char *c;
public:
    Info(const int, const int, const char *);
    const int get_a() { return a; };
    const int get_b() { return b; };
    const char *get_c() const { return c; };
};

Info::Info(const int a, const int b, const char *c) : a(a), b(b), c(c) {};

Info list[] = {
    Info(1, 2, "a"),
    Info(3, 4, "b"),
};

main()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(list)/sizeof(*list); i++) {
        cout << i << " " << list[i].get_c() << endl;
    }
}

I just don't see what information is not available for the compiler to completely instantiate these objects at compile time, so I assume I am missing something.