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some singletons ensure the call of destructor when the application exits.

- xiayingp November 29, 2012 | Flag Reply
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class Singleton {
public:
static Singleton* Instance();
~Singleton() { delete me_; me_ = null; }
private:
Singleton();
static Singleton *me_;
};

- Anonymous May 16, 2013 | Flag Reply
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1. Here do you expect that user of singleton must call delete on pointer (then only your destructor will be called..), what if user forget to call delete ?

2. If database object is my singleton class, and user calls delete on this, should I really delete it ?

- Abhishek Narolia July 13, 2013 | Flag


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