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. -- .''`. Richard B. Kreckel : :' : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `- <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>