Re: New Singleton Scheme

From:
Gerhard Menzl <clcppm-poster@this.is.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:32:30 CST
Message-ID:
<fecnvm$een$1@news.datemas.de>
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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