Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Hopwood
Date : Wed Jan 19 2005 10:11 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.

Not doing so makes C++ static locals (with nontrivial constructors)
effectively unusable in MT programs.

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>

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