Re: New Singleton Scheme

From:
Gerhard Menzl <clcppm-poster@this.is.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Mon, 3 Sep 2007 02:32:27 CST
Message-ID:
<fbgcom$5dt$1@news.datemas.de>
Ema wrote:

class Singleton
{
   Singleton(const Singleton&);
   Singleton& operator=(const Singleton&);
public:
   void Init(void) {}

   static Singleton& Instance(void)
   {
        Singleton _s;
        return _s;
   }
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   Singleton::Instance().Init();
   // now ready for MT use
}


What does Init() achieve which the constructor doesn't?


Simply creates the object in a single thread context (you know if
there are any mutex(es) they get created in a thread safe context).


Init() doesn't create the object.

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
       Singleton::Instance();
    }

would be sufficient.

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