Re: Threadsafe singletons
"David Barrett-Lennard" <davidbl@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:1154525824.378002.232050@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
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That suggests it is fairly easy to change the code in my OP to ensure
s_init is initialised. Eg
static volatile int s_dummy;
static struct InitMySingleton
{
InitMySingleton() { s_dummy = 0; MySingleton::GetInstance(); }
} s_init;
That won't fool a good compiler :-) Now you have s_dummy that is not used,
so
the program doesn't have an observable side effect in InitMySingleton.
Therefore, following as-if rule compiler can still throw the whole thing
away. I
suggest you play with VC8 and look at the assembly, it used to be pretty
smart
removing the dead code.
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