Re: Thread safe 'global' variable
Bart Simpson wrote:
I am writing a class which is an analytic engine that traverses a MxN
matrix space and makes calculations at each point in the matrix. The
calculations involve calling "exposed" functions via callbacks.
In a nutshell, I need to be able to pass the current position in the
grid to the callback function, so I have somehing like this:
//'global' vars
namespace
{
Point mypoint ;
}
class MyEngine
{
public:
void WriteCurrentPointValue();
//...
};
//"registered" functions
int foo()
{
Point point = ReadCurrentPointValue();
return DoSomething(point);
}
However, this soln is not thread safe in that if I have multiple
instances of the engine running in different threads, all bets are off.
My question is this:
How can I provide threadsafe 'global' variable for use as discussed above?
Further clarification/correction - what I need is actually, a
thread-local 'global' variable. The architecture of the program means
that thread safety is not an issue here ... (once I have thread-local
global variables sorted out)
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