Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 06:30 pm


"Giancarlo Niccolai" <gniccolai@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:95e4efda.0502191504.315f1f3@posting.google.com...

> I CANNOT BELIVE IT. GCC 4.0 is going to lock initializers on THIS C++
> ABI CLOSURE:
>
> http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/cxx-closed.html#G4

    Nothing in the C++ ABI closure prohibits the implementation from 
omitting the locks if '-pthreads' is specified during compilation. Other 
threading standards, of course, can have their own rules.

    DS

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