Re: [boost] [log] Release candidate 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] Release candidate 1
From: Stefan Strasser (strasser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-11 09:10:37

Am 11.03.2013 13:48, schrieb Andrey Semashev:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Stefan Strasser <strasser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Am 11.03.2013 13:27, schrieb Stefan Strasser:
>>
>>> Am 11.03.2013 12:51, schrieb Andrey Semashev:
>>>>>
>>>>> then it's an implemention detail, I'd suggest making all the
>>>>> functions of
>>>>> logging::core static, or make logging::core a namespace.
>>>>> if you wanna add the feature you've mentioned later on, you could for
>>>>> example ask the user to construct and hold a
>>>>> core::log_during_termination
>>>>> object, which - again as an implementation detail - holds a
>>>>> shared_ptr to
>>>>> the internal core.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This won't work because every static function would have to obtain the
>>>> pointer to the core which may be invalidated because its global
>>>> destructor has been invoked already.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not suggesting any changes to the internals, only to the interface.
>>> Maybe the following code makes it a little clearer:
>>
>> was your point that the destructor A::~A in my code can't use the static
>> functions? that's correct, but it can't use the current "static core::get()"
>> either.
>
> Exactly. Loggers hold the pointer to the core and use it to emit log
> records. If you cache a logger as a member in your A, you will not
> have to call core::get() in ~A. But you will have to call some core
> methods (through the logger) to write logs in ~A.

okay, if the loggers don't use get() but hold a shared_ptr (and aren't 
destructed yet themselves) the problem doesn't exist anyway. then the 
non-static functions have to be public for the loggers to use.

I wasn't trying to get into a discussion about how logging during 
termination is best implemented, all I'm saying is that such a corner 
case like logging during termination should not force a regular user to 
use a rather strange interface.

none of the internals, however they may be, have to change for that.