Re: One-time initialization of statics in a multithreaded world
"Bertrand Augereau" wrote:
I cooked a macro for initializing objects once in our
project, could
you review and criticize it, please?
I'm mostly interested in correctness, not performance :)
I'm not sure why do you need all these tricks with static
pointers. I'd make it like this:
#define ONE_TIME_INITIALIZE(TYPE, NAME, INITIALIZER) \
\
static volatile LONG NAME##lock = 0L; \
\
while(InterlockedExchange(&NAME##lock, 1) != 0) \
{ \
Sleep(1); \
} \
\
static TYPE* NAME##Ptr = NULL; \
\
if(!NAME##Ptr) \
{ \
*NAME##Ptr = &INITIALIZER; \
} \
\
TYPE& NAME = *(NAME##Ptr); \
\
InterlockedExchange(&NAME##lock, 0);
Alex
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