Le 9 déc. 2011 à 10:36, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit :

> 
> Le 9 déc. 2011 à 08:47, Ken Thomases a écrit :
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:11 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09.12.2011, at 07:55, Ken Thomases wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Double-checked locking is broken.  It is an anti-pattern in many 
>>>> languages, including the C family under most common implementations.  
>>>> Don't use it.  Google it if you want to confirm.  One reference: 
>>>> <http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html>.
>>> 
>>> Is this an issue that just exists when you want to write against ANSI C, or 
>>> is this an actual, practical concern when writing on the Mac, for MacOS or 
>>> iOS?
>> 
>> It is an actual, practical concern.  The compilers can re-order memory 
>> accesses.  The CPU can, too.
>> 
>> The second and subsequent threads through the double-checked lock can see 
>> the singleton pointer as non-nil, but the pointed-to object may not be 
>> valid.  Its content may not have been written to memory, yet.
>> 
> 
> It was a real concern on PPC, but on Intel platform AFAIK. 

I mean but NOT on Intel plateform.

> Memory barriers are noop on x86, as it does not perform out of order 
> execution of memory operations.
> 
> http://locklessinc.com/articles/singleton_pattern/
> 
> That said,avoiding this pattern in the future may be a good thing.
> 
> -- Jean-Daniel
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