[vtk-developers] Crashes after recent checkins

[Brad King]

On 08/26/2013 12:05 PM, Berk Geveci wrote:
> Can you try this?

>From the patch:

+  if (!vtkTimeStamp::GlobalTimeStamp)
+    {
+#if VTK_SIZEOF_VOID_P == 8
+    vtkTimeStamp::GlobalTimeStamp = new vtkAtomicInt64;

This runtime initialization is not thread-safe, which IIUC
is the entire point of using an atomic integer.  We can
achieve proper static initialization and finalization using
the same Schwarz Counter idiom:

 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C++_Idioms/Nifty_Counter

that we already use in several places.  It provides a way
to order things across translation units.

-Brad