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