Re: New Singleton Scheme
jezz@hkfree.org wrote:
What about this implementation:
class Singleton
{
public:
static Singleton *instance();
private:
Singleton() { }
static volatile bool mInitialized;
static Singleton *mInstance;
};
volatile bool Singleton::mInitialized = false;
Singleton *Singleton::mInstance = 0;
Singleton *Singleton::instance()
{
if (not mInitialized)
{
/* scope */
{
Lock lock;
if (mInstance == 0)
{
mInstance = new Singleton;
}
}
mInitialized = true;
}
return mInstance;
}
volatile is of no portable use for multithreading. Specifically, it does
not guarantee atomic access in the presence of multiple threads.
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