Re: singleton

From:
"Thomas J. Gritzan" <Phygon_ANTISPAM@gmx.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:40:19 +0100
Message-ID:
<fsb2sk$7ap$1@newsreader2.netcologne.de>
[top-posting corrected]

Colin:

class A{
private:
    A(){}
    static A* a=null;
public:
    static A *getInstance(){
      if(a==null)
      {
          a=new A(); //remeber delete it..
      }
      return a;
    }

};


Thomas:

hi guys,
-----code-----
class A{
private:
    A(){}
public:
    static A *getInstance(){
       static A *a = new A(); //-------L1----
       return a;
    }};


ManicQin wrote:
 > Thmas if you look closly you'll see the difference between what you
 > wrote and what Colin wrote
 > Colin's class A has a static member variable that the singleton is
 > responsible for keeping only one instance of him in the system.
 > Thomas's code is a singleton that creates new instances of a local
 > variable each time getInsatnce is called, (which is not very singleton
 > of him... Unless Thomas gave a wrong code...)

That's wrong. Both versions create only one instance of the object.

A variable declared 'static' locally in a function body is initialized only
once.

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