Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 05:39 pm


David Schwartz wrote:
[...]
> > Calculating the address can be done by reading from a page which
> > appears to have different contents among threads. So it's not more
> > costly than one extra dereference.
> 
>     That was *MY* point! He's saying you can't do it that way because
> "threads share address space by definition".

Reread what I said about mappings and implementation details. Read
also POSIX definition of address space.

regards,
alexander.

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