Re: [boost] Boost threadsafe singleton? - Inclusion in Boost

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-24 16:13:24

Michael Marcin wrote:
> That sounds good to me. If the serialization library is doing something 
> non-trivial at static initialization or destruction time than it can't 
> be used in many embedded environments that either don't perform static 
> destruction or require a explicit initialization of their runtime 
> library, free store/heap, etc.

Those are pretty much the same constraints that apply to most UNIXes for 
dynamic libraries. So if you want to write a portable library you better 
don't use non-trivial static initialization or destruction, anyway.

Regards,
Tobias