Re: Confused about a thread-safe singleton example.
On Dec 3, 6:47 am, Alan Johnson <aw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
1. Don't use singletons. Ever. Pretty much all of the value of the =
GoF
Design Patterns book is negated by the fact that they chose to
legitimize Singleton as a design pattern. Singleton is just a fancy
name for global variable. We should call it the Global Variable
(anti)Pattern.
I can not agree more.
If the singleton is not going to be used before or after main(), then
the following is enough:
// header.h start
class X { /* ... */ };
extern X global_x;
// header.h end
If the singleton should be usable before and after main(), then there
is Schwarz Counter idiom to initialise your global variables, just the
same way as std::cout, std::cin, ... globals get initialised:
// header.h start
class X { /* ... */ };
extern X* global_x;
struct X_init
{
X_init();
~X_init();
}
// Put a copy of x_init (const === static)
// in every translation unit that includes header.h
const x_init;
// header.h end
// source.cc start
// These PODs are zero-initialised before
// any constructors are invoked.
static int counter;
X* global_x;
X_init::X_init()
{
if(!counter++)
global_x = new X;
}
X_init::~X_init()
{
if(!--counter)
delete global_x;
}
// source.cc end
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