[Development] Local static variable initialization in multithreaded code

[Thiago Macieira]

On domingo, 28 de fevereiro de 2016 18:52:30 PST Vincas Dargis wrote:
> 2016.02.28 17:37, Olivier Goffart rašė:
> > Since QBasicAtomic is a literal type, it is going to be initialized at
> > compile time and can be used without mutexes.
> 
> That's interesting, thanks.
> 
> Though should I add TODO for the future to simplify it when MSVC2013 support
> ends? Or it could be like that "forever"?

Not worth it, since there's a lot of code using Q_GLOBAL_STATIC and they often 
have more reasons than just thread-safely initialisation.

PS: MSVC 2015 RTM is also affected. Only Update 1 is fixed.

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