From e69c6b3bd6417995494ce40b10171d2f64bc7c25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rose <david@ddrose.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:09:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] oops

---
 panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeTIFF.cxx | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeTIFF.cxx b/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeTIFF.cxx
index e0102a935d..d5853f55a4 100644
--- a/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeTIFF.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/pnmimagetypes/pnmFileTypeTIFF.cxx
@@ -208,8 +208,10 @@ TypeHandle PNMFileTypeTIFF::_type_handle;
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 PNMFileTypeTIFF::
 PNMFileTypeTIFF() {
-  if (pnmimage_tiff_cat.is_debug()) {
-    pnmimage_tiff_cat.debug()
+  // This constructor may run at static init type, so we use the ->
+  // dereferencing convention on the notify category.
+  if (pnmimage_tiff_cat->is_debug()) {
+    pnmimage_tiff_cat->debug()
       << TIFFGetVersion() << "\n";
   }
 }