[cpp-threads] C++ committee meeting in Mont Tremblant

[Doug Lea]

Peter Dimov wrote:
> Doug Lea wrote:
> 
>> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> 
>>> I agree that static initialisation can currently be much more
>>> difficult than it really should be.  However, this problem is not
>>> really on-topic for this list, so can we leave the matter now?
>>
>>
>> Well, there IS the back-door issue about memory-model rules that
>> may apply to guarantee ordering and visibility of static initializers.
> 
> 
> Can you give an example of the issue?
> 

Not knowing anything about what is being proposed, I don't know
if it applies, but if static initialization need not precede
construction of multiple threads, you may need something to ensure that
the statically-initialized value of globalStruct.aField is visible to
any thread that can read globalStruct.


-Doug