Re: [boost] [thread] Proposal for thread safe initialization of local static and global objects

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-06 07:53:16

Bronek Kozicki wrote:

> What's wrong with simple:
>
> template <typename T> struct wrapper
> {
>   static T data;
> };
>
> template <typename T>
> T wrapper<T>::data;
>
> template<C> void foo(C arg)
> {
>   bar<C>& abar = wrapper<bar<C> >::data;
> }
>
> ... which will trigger static (thread-safe) initialization.

This doesn't solve the initialization order problem, the primary reason for 
using local statics in the first place.