Re: singleton

From:
Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:03:37 +1300
Message-ID:
<64rtf9F2cjptfU19@mid.individual.net>
[please don't top-post, corrected]

Colin wrote:

On Mar 25, 10:17 am, thomas <FreshTho...@gmail.com> wrote:

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

-----code-----

I use the static keyword to declare a static instance A,
I wonder if getInstance() is called multiple times, will L1 be
executed multiple times?

generally a initialization sentence of static variable will be
executed only once, but I'm not sure what will the c++ compiler expand
for L1.


class A{
private:
    A(){}
    static A* a=null;


The above is illegal (you can't initialise a non-const static member
this way) and you haven't declared null.

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


This form is only really useful if you intend to delete the singleton.

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