Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe? To : comp.programming.threads From : Gianni Mariani Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 06:30 am Alexander Terekhov wrote: > David Schwartz wrote: > [...] > >> Since we're talking about C/C++ language extensions here, > > > Go read the standards. In C++, for example, apart from empty base > objects, all objects are guaranteed to have distinct addresses; > even zero length objects. And sharing is fundamental property of > threads. That's what makes them threads, not processes. The C++ standard says nothing about threads. .