Re: Bug#116823: Debian's g++-3.0 forgets to generate some code.

["Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel@ginac.de>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Nathan Myers wrote:
[...]
> > I'd say that the best solution would be to get rid of globals. This is
> > actually very easy:
> > 
> > If you have
> >   TYPE VAR = INITIALIZER;
> > replace that with
> >   TYPE& getVAR(){  static TYPE obj = INITIALIZER;   return obj; }
> > 
> > Then use getVAR() whereever you've used VAR before. For backwards
> > compatibility, you can even do
> > 
> > #define VAR (getVAR())
> > 
> > In understand that modules don't share global objects (perhaps except
> > for the module singleton), so removing global should be a local change
> > inside each module only.
>  
> Beware, use of nontrivial static local initialization is inherently
> thread-unsafe without direct compiler support.  

Sure, but threads are not an issue here.  We're using reference counting
all over the place...

Regards
    -richy.
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