RE: Question about static class objects

Hi Konstantin,

Well, yes ... however the issue presented by Tom was:

• how to use a static data member in an interpreted script.

You are correct that using static member is not thread safe. However, using a function static is still better than using a class static.

In addition, since this is for interpreted code and that the interpreter is currently not thread safe, there is really no (new) thread issue :)

Cheers,
Philippe.

-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Olchanski [mailto:olchansk_at_triumf.ca] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:15 PM
To: Philippe Canal
Cc: 'Tom Roberts'; 'ROOT Talk'
Subject: Re: [ROOT] Question about static class objects

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:01:57PM -0500, Philippe Canal wrote:
> TList &Zap::list() {
> static TList list;
> return list;
> }
> which anyway is slightly better in term of C++ style :)

This will bomb in a multi-threaded program?

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