Re: singleton in a DLL loaded class
PaulH <paul.heil@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a class loaded from a DLL that I would like to implement as a
multi-threadable singleton. Unfortunately, I seem to still be getting
two distinct instances of this class. It is implemented as below.
//singletonclass.h
class SingletonClass : BaseClass
{
public:
static SingletonClass& Instance();
~SingletonClass();
//... Implement BaseClass functions
private:
static std::auto_ptr< SingletonClass > _theInstance;
static Mutex* _m;
}
//singletonclass.cpp
std::auto_ptr< SingletonClass > SingletonClass::_theInstance;
Mutex* SingletonClass::_m;
/*static*/ SingletonClass& SingletonClass::Instance()
{
Mutex::Create( &_m );
What does Mutex::Create do? It appears you are creating a new mutex
every time Instance() is called.
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