Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Gianni Mariani
Date : Tue Jan 18 2005 08:46 pm

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Gianni Mariani wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>GCC 4.0 will have it's bug fixed in this area.  Other compilers seem to
>>have bugs.
> 
> 
> It's not a bug. Synchronizing all static locals by default (in "MT 
> mode") is just silly.

I don't think so.  Having heard the growlings of a colleague recently, I 
suspect there are at least 2 people that violently disagree with you.

Do explain what you think is so silly.

  Some standard STDC #pragma is perhaps the best
> way to go.

I can't understand why you think you should do the "wrong thing" (TM) by 
default ?

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