Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Giancarlo Niccolai
Date : Wed Feb 02 2005 06:27 pm

Gianni Mariani wrote:

> Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
>> Joseph Seigh wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I agree; also, if this crap makes its way into GCC, I will stop using it.
> 
> Which crap are you referring to ?

Like this:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13684
at point n.8.

Having a reentrant mutex cheching for each initializer initialization 1)
does not fix the generic problem of initialization during static init with
MT already going and 2) would be ... crappy.

bests,
Gian.

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