id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
1732,Require clarification on boost::serialization::singleton,Sohail Somani <boost-trac@…>,Robert Ramey,"Hi,

I would appreciate some reference to the standards in boost/serialization/singleton.hpp. Specifically why this is supposed to work on ""working compilers"":

    BOOST_DLLEXPORT static T & instance;
    // include this to provoke instantiation at pre-execution time
    static void use(T const &) {}
    static T & get_instance(){
        static T t;
        // refer to instance, causing it to be instantiated (and
        // initialized at startup on working compilers)
        use(instance);
        return t;
    }

Thanks!",Support Requests,closed,To Be Determined,serialization,Boost Development Trunk,Not Applicable,fixed,,