Re: [Boost-users] random library: initializaing a generator.

From: Carlo Wood (carlo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-06 11:26:56

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:53:50PM +0200, Anne-Gert Bultena wrote:
> On the other hand, Since a
> constant value is written, it doesn't need to be a problem, even in a multi threaded environment.
> 
> example:
> 
> int generate()
> {
>     static int number = 10;
>     return number++;
> }

This is not thread-safe when two different threads call
generate at the same time.  number++ both reads and writes to number.

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Carlo Wood <carlo_at_[hidden]>