Re: Singleton_pattern and Thread Safety
On 14 d=E9c, 15:48, Leigh Johnston <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
On 14/12/2010 10:07, James Kanze wrote:
On Dec 13, 7:30 pm, Leigh Johnston<le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
On 13/12/2010 18:47, Leigh Johnston wrote:
[...]
This is your code:
namespace {
Singleton* ourInstance =&Singleton::instance();
Singleton&
Singleton::instance()
{
if (ourInstance == NULL)
ourInstance = new Singleton;
return *ourInstance;
}
}
The ourInstance *pointer* is a global object (albeit with internal
linkage) which you are initializing with a dynamic allocation wrapped=
in
a function. If you have more than such initialization in more than on=
e
TU the order of the initializations is unspecified.
Just as confirmation that what I am saying is correct I created two
singletons using your method in the files a.cpp and b.cpp and here is
the result:
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$ g++ a.cpp b.cpp
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$ ./a.out
singleton B constructed
singleton A constructed
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$ g++ b.cpp a.cpp
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$ ./a.out
singleton A constructed
singleton B constructed
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$ g++ a.cpp b.cpp
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$ ./a.out
singleton B constructed
singleton A constructed
leigh@leigh-VirtualBox:~/dev/singleton$
That's not the point. The point is that it is impossible to use
the singleton before it has been constructed.
It is the point. Singletons can do stuff during *construction*. In
this case the two singletons whilst not referencing each other reference
a third object during construction namely std::cout.
cout has a special treatment.
You seem to think that a program can behave differently depending on the
order its source files are built; this is an interesting approach to
software engineering.
This is what happen when somthing is unspecified by the standard -
such as the order of initialisation of global variables in a program.
Some actually do solve the initialisation order fiasco by changing the
order they appear on the linker command line.
--
Michael
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