Re: atomically thread-safe Meyers singleton impl (fixed)...
"Anthony Williams" <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> wrote in message
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"Dmitriy V'jukov" <dvyukov@gmail.com> writes:
On Jul 30, 8:44 am, "Chris Thomasson" <x...@xxx.xxx> wrote:
template<typename T>
struct singleton {
static T* instance() {
static T* volatile this_ptr = NULL;
I think here is a little problem. this_ptr is initialized dynamically,
and this initialization is not thread-safe. So some thread can
overwrite pointer in this_ptr with NULL.
You have to made this_ptr global, not function local, so it will be
initialized with NULL statically before any user code is executed.
Initialization with a constant is still static initialization, even
for function locals.
That's what I always thought. However, perhaps he is thinking along the
lines of:
struct foo {
foo() {
puts("HELLO!");
}
};
void static_me_or_not(int flag) {
if (flag == 666) {
static foo x;
}
}
/* program 1 */
int main() {
static_me_or_not(1);
static_me_or_not(2);
static_me_or_not(3);
static_me_or_not(4);
return 0;
}
/* program 2 */
int main() {
static_me_or_not(1);
static_me_or_not(2);
static_me_or_not(666);
static_me_or_not(4);
return 0;
}
The execution of program 1 will not print "HELLO!", however, the execution
of program 2 will... Sounds dynamic...
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