Re: [boost] singleton and thread safety

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-02 17:22:04

Pavel Vozenilek wrote:
> "Jason Hise" wrote:
>
>>> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/call_once.html?
>>>
>> Why does it require that the function which is called once not be
>> allowed to throw?  I am not sure that I can meet this requirement,
>> as I may need to dynamically allocate memory.
>>
> Possibly because of internal implementation.

I think it's a pthreads requirement.

Jonathan