a static local variable in a static method is thread local storage?

[Patrick Hoffmann]

hi folx,

today I had "multithreading" trouble with the following code (MS
VC++6/optimized compiling):

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class myclass
{
static int s_nNext;
public:
static int getN() { static int N = s_nNext++; return N; }
};

int myclass::s_nNext = 0;
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myclass::getN() increments myclass::s_nNext for one time and returns
it before.
With this code I wanted to create an automatic "class-id-enumeration".
It worked well in a multi threaded enviroment with linux/gcc for a
long time. But today I got problems under VC6++/Windows, because in
this case N seems to be thread local storage. So every thread
(including the main) gets a new id for the same class.

I worked around that problem, but I'm interested in an official
documentation of this issue. Is it part of C++, MS or VC++?

Can anybody give me some acknowlege?

thanx much, keep hack'n!

p@

 

[Jack Klein]

hi folx,

today I had "multithreading" trouble with the following code (MS
VC++6/optimized compiling):

[snip]

You need to take this to one of Microsoft's support groups in the
family. We discuss the C++ language here,
which has no support at all for multithreading or thread local
storage. These are all compiler specific issues.

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[Patrick Hoffmann]

You need to take this to one of Microsoft's support groups in the
family. We discuss the C++ language here,
which has no support at all for multithreading or thread local
storage. These are all compiler specific issues.

Ok, this is correct, if MS is the problem. But I'm not sure if this is
right. It also could be an issue of C++ static inline methods. May be
the compiler generates the static local variable N for every call of
f(), because it's static & inline?

p@

 

[Christian Janßen]

class myclass

{
static int s_nNext;
public:
static int getN() { static int N = s_nNext++; return N; }
};

int myclass::s_nNext = 0;

In a multithreading environment your code will generate random results.
"myclass::s_nNext" wont be in TLS under windows,
since you ommited __declspec(thread).

Christian