Once.initEnter

Function to be called when starting a critical initialization section. The argument location must point to a static 0-initialized variable that will be set to a value other than 0 at the end of the initialization section. In combination with Once.initLeave and the unique address value_location, it can be ensured that an initialization section will be executed only once during a program's life time, and that concurrent threads are blocked until initialization completed. To be used in constructs like this:

static gsize initialization_value = 0;

if (g_once_init_enter (&initialization_value))
{
gsize setup_value = 42; // initialization code here

g_once_init_leave (&initialization_value, setup_value);
}

// use initialization_value here
class Once
static
bool
initEnter
(
void* location
)

Parameters

location void*

location of a static initializable variable containing 0

Return Value

Type: bool

TRUE if the initialization section should be entered, FALSE and blocks otherwise

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Since

2.14