Re: atomically thread-safe Meyers singleton impl (fixed)...
"Chris Thomasson" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message
news:g6orcf$q2d$1@aioe.org...
Here is the fixed version of my atomically thread-safe singleton
implementation using pthreads,
x86, MSVC and the double-checked locking pattern with some error checking
omitted for brevity:
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I think this is about as good as I can do. It uses a single recursive
mutex as a guard for the singleton slow-path. This is needed because a
singleton can contain other singletons in there ctor's. The pthread-win32
library features a `PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER' definition which
statically initialized a recursive mutex. However, I don't think that this
is standard. Therefore, the code will automatically compensate for this if
it is not defined. This means that this singleton will work even if
threads are created before main. Also, it should be rather trivial to
convert this over to GCC and Linux. Alls you would need to do is create
the atomic functions in AT&T inline assembler syntax.
Any thoughts on this approach?
I think the only possible way to break this would be to do something
EXTREMELY STUPID like:
struct foo {
foo() {
foo* f = singleton<foo>::instance();
}
};
which would be analogous to doing:
struct foo {
foo() {
static foo f;
}
};
For now, AFAICT this thread-safe singleton is looking fairly bullet-proof.
Humm...
Can you think of a way to bust it?
Thanks.
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