Re: Non-static singleton setup to control life time

I want to setup a singleton, without 'static' initialization. My
motive is to control the life time of the Singleton, bounded by its
scope, something I cannot do with the statics.

Not this way. This uses static:

Single* Get()
{
   Static Single s; // do not want static
   Return &s;

}

Instead, I am doing this (please ignore thread safety issues)
Single* g_Single = NULL; // global singleton ptr
struct Single
{

        Single()
        {
                if (!g_Single)
                {
                        g_Single = this;
                }
                else
                {
                   throw string("Single is a singleton");
                }
        }
        ~Single()
        {
                g_Single = NULL;
        }

};

 Is this ugly or acceptable?

Kris