Re: Help Required for Loki's small object

[Rich S. <rd...@ri...>]

Hi Nilesh,

I recommend defining T as "volatile T" when using
SingletonHolder with a multi-threaded model.

The function:
inline T & SingletonHolder< T, CreationPolicy,
    LifetimePolicy, ThreadingModel, MutexPolicy >
    ::Instance()
will return a reference to a volatile T if you use a
multi-threaded model and if you declare your singleton
like this:
::Loki::SingletonHolder< volatile T, whatever,
   whatever, ::Loki::ObjectLevelLockable,
   whatever >;

If you define it like this:
::Loki::SingletonHolder< T, whatever,
   whatever, ::Loki::ObjectLevelLockable,
   whatever >;
without the "volatile T" it will not return a
reference
with the proper volatile qualification.

Meanwhile, I found another bug with SmallObject and
ObjectLevelLockable while studying this bug.  I will
have look at that bug.

Cheers,

Rich


--- Richard Sposato <rd...@ri...> wrote:

> Hi Nilesh,
> 
> Can you tell us exactly what error messages you get
> from GCC?
> 
> Meanwhile, I'm going to take another look at Loki's
> test projects.  I'm 
> sure we have several tests which cover the
> singleton, threading, and 
> small-object-allocator parts of Loki.  You might
> want to take a look at 
> those test projects and see if any of them are
> similar enough to how you 
> use Loki.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> nilesh joshi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am new for using small object allocator.
> > I have ported it on gcc compiler for Motorolla
> processor.
> > It compiles and works fine for single threaded
> option while
> > using singleton.
> > But as soon as i give an option for
> ObjectLevelLockable
> > the GCC compiler start giving errors.
> > This is because for ObjectLevelLockable class,
> Loki makes use
> > of a volatile variable for class Host in object
> > and SingleThreaded doesnot make use of one.
> > This is used to create a pointer instance in
> singleton.h
> > But the singleton implementation for instance()
> doesnot return
> > a volatile reference.
> > Is there a trick that is to be used to remove
> these errors 
> > or is it that we have to do manual changes to
> return the 
> > volatile reference everytime we use multithreaded
> applications.
> > Awaiting your reply.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Regards,
> > Nilesh.
> 
> 
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