From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-01 15:36:05
> Initial Comment:
> When using BOOST+AUTO_UNIT_TEST and
> BOOST_SP_USE_QUICK_ALLOCATOR and BOOST_HAS_THREADS
> macros under Windows (MSVC71) Access Violation occurs
> in "lightweight_mutex::scoped_lock::scoped_lock".
> This behavior produced by error in
> "boost::detail::allocator_impl" or in Test Framework.
> Mutex for locking created by static member. Automatic
> unittests created by using global variables. So we have
> using uninitialized CRITICAL_SECTION because order of
> global variables initialization is undefined.
>
> I tried to convert
> "boost::detail::allocator_impl::mutex" from static
> variable to Meyer's singleton (with static member
> function which contains local static variable "mutex").
> This solves my problem but I can't suggest any patch
> because I can't test it with many compilers.
This is frequently met issue with global variables. Peter will you be able
to handle this?
Gennadiy