[Boost-users] Boost serialization onexit problem 2

From: gast128 (gast128_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-20 12:52:17

Hello Robert,

the problem is related to use of singleton, which have many problems as 
described in Alexandrescu. We have singletons a la:

class Singleton
{
public:
   static Singleton* Instance()
   {
      if (ms_pInstance == NULL)
      {
         ms_pInstance = new Singleton
      }
      return ms_pInstance; 
   } 

private:
   Singleton()
   {
      atexit(&Destroy);
   }

   static void Destroy()
   {
       delete ms_pInstance;
   } 

   static Singleton* ms_pInstance;
};

I was hoping for some sort of work around in which the serialization library 
could be fooled to initialise itself with some simple function calls, but 
indeed tackling the singleton problem would be more fundamental. 

wkr,
me