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authorEgor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>2016-05-21 04:32:58 +0300
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 788fdeb..88a6746 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
# C++ notes
Personal C++ notes.
-Hosted on [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com) at
-https://egor-tensin.github.io/cpp-notes/.
+Hosted using [GitHub Pages] at https://egor-tensin.github.io/cpp-notes/.
+
+[GitHub Pages]: https://pages.github.com
## Installation
-[Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) is used to build a set of static HTML pages from
-a collection of templates and resources.
+[Jekyll] is used to build a set of static HTML pages from a collection of
+templates and resources.
It might seem like Jekyll doesn't support Windows very well.
However, at the moment of writing one can get it to work using the excellent
tutorial at http://jekyll-windows.juthilo.com/.
I personally had no problems running Jekyll on Windows whatsoever.
-I use [Bundler](http://bundler.io/) to manage project's dependencies.
+I use [Bundler] to manage project's dependencies.
Make sure you have the `bundler` gem installed; project dependencies can then
be installed by executing
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ be installed by executing
in the project's root directory.
+[Jekyll]: https://jekyllrb.com/
+[Bundler]: http://bundler.io/
+
## Development
To run a local web server, execute
@@ -58,11 +62,11 @@ One easy workaround might be to `wget` the website and convert the links:
wget --convert-links --recursive http://localhost:4000/
-## Licensing
+## License
This project, including all of the files and their contents, is licensed under
the terms of the MIT License.
-See LICENSE.txt for details.
+See [LICENSE.txt] for details.
This website is build upon the Twitter Bootstrap framework, which is also MIT
Licensed and copyright 2015 Twitter.
@@ -70,3 +74,5 @@ Licensed and copyright 2015 Twitter.
A MIT Licensed CSS style sheet from
https://github.com/mojombo/tpw/blob/master/css/syntax.css created by Tom
Preston-Werner is used for syntax highlighting.
+
+[LICENSE.txt]: LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/_includes/footer.html b/_includes/footer.html
index e94a1de..27ff07a 100644
--- a/_includes/footer.html
+++ b/_includes/footer.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<div style="display: table; width: 100%;">
<div style="display: table-row;">
<div style="display: table-cell;">
- <div class="text-center text-muted"><small>This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. See <a href="https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/tree/gh-pages#licensing">Licensing</a> for details.</small></div>
+ <div class="text-center text-muted"><small>This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. See <a href="https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/tree/gh-pages#license">License</a> for details.</small></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: table-row;">
diff --git a/_posts/2015-07-03-std-call-once-bug-in-visual-studio-2012-2013.md b/_posts/2015-07-03-std-call-once-bug-in-visual-studio-2012-2013.md
index 39fd93a..2b11d54 100644
--- a/_posts/2015-07-03-std-call-once-bug-in-visual-studio-2012-2013.md
+++ b/_posts/2015-07-03-std-call-once-bug-in-visual-studio-2012-2013.md
@@ -14,31 +14,30 @@ Library implementation shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013.
This post, including code samples, is licenced under the terms of the MIT
License.
-See
-[LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE.txt)
-for details.
+See [LICENSE.txt] for details.
+
+[LICENSE.txt]: https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE.txt
## Introduction
I've recently come across a nasty standard library bug in the implementation
shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013.
-[StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com)
-was of
-[no help](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26477070/concurrent-stdcall-once-calls),
-so I had to somehow report the bug to the maintainers.
-Oddly enough, Visual Studio's
-[Connect page](https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio)
-wouldn't let me to report one, complaining that I supposedly had no right to do
-so, even though I was logged in from my work account, associated with my Visual
-Studio 2013 installation.
+[StackOverflow was of no help], so I had to somehow report the bug to the
+maintainers.
+Oddly enough, Visual Studio's [Connect page] wouldn't let me to report one,
+complaining that I supposedly had no right to do so, even though I was logged
+in from my work account, associated with my Visual Studio 2013 installation.
Fortunately, I've come across the personal website of this amazing guy,
-[Stephan T. Lavavej](http://nuwen.net/stl.html),
-who appears to be the chief maintainer of Microsoft's standard library
-implementation.
+[Stephan T. Lavavej], who appears to be the chief maintainer of Microsoft's
+standard library implementation.
He seems to be your go-to guy when it comes to obvious standard library
misbehaviours.
+[StackOverflow was of no help]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26477070/concurrent-stdcall-once-calls
+[Connect page]: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
+[Stephan T. Lavavej]: http://nuwen.net/stl.html
+
## C++11 and singletons
Anyway, the story begins with me trying to implement the singleton pattern
@@ -98,10 +97,8 @@ private:
};
{% endhighlight %}
-Note that the
-[N2660](http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2660.htm)
-standard proposal isn't/wasn't implemented in the compilers shipped with Visual
-Studio 2012/2013.
+Note that the [N2660] standard proposal isn't/wasn't implemented in the
+compilers shipped with Visual Studio 2012/2013.
If it was, I wouldn't, of course, need to employ this `std::call_once`
trickery, and the implementation would be much simpler, i.e. something like
this:
@@ -133,15 +130,16 @@ the instance has already been intialized.
This other thread might then return a reference to the instance which hasn't
completed its initialization and is most likely unsafe to use.</p>
-<p>Since C++11 includes the proposal for
-<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2660.htm">"Dynamic Initialization and Destruction with Concurrency"</a>
-mentioned above, this routine would indeed be thread-safe in C++11.
+<p>Since C++11 includes the proposal mentioned above, this routine would indeed
+be thread-safe in C++11.
Unfortunately, the compilers shipped with Visual Studio 2012/2013 don't/didn't
implement this particular proposal, which caused me to turn my eyes to
<code>std::call_once</code>, which seems to implement exactly what I
needed.</p>
</div>
+[N2660]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2660.htm
+
## The bug
Unfortunately, matters became a bit more complicated when I tried to have two
@@ -279,15 +277,15 @@ So it appears that the implementation of `std::call_once` shipped with Visual
Studio 2012/2013 relies on some kind of a global lock, which causes even the
simple example above to misbehave.
-The complete code sample to demonstrate the misbehaviour described above can be
-found at
-[https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/tree/gh-pages/src/posts/std_call_once_bug_in_visual_studio_2012_2013](https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/tree/gh-pages/src/posts/std_call_once_bug_in_visual_studio_2012_2013).
+The [complete code] sample to demonstrate the misbehaviour described above can
+be found in the blog's repository.
+
+[complete code]: https://github.com/egor-tensin/cpp-notes/tree/gh-pages/src/posts/std_call_once_bug_in_visual_studio_2012_2013
## Resolution
-So, since I couldn't submit the bug via Visual Studio's
-[Connect page](https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio),
-I wrote to Mr. Lavavej directly, not hoping for an answer.
+So, since I couldn't submit the bug via Visual Studio's [Connect page], I wrote
+to Mr. Lavavej directly, not hoping for an answer.
Amazingly, it took him less than a day to reply.
He told me he was planning to overhaul `std::call_once` for Visual Studio 2015.
Meanwhile, I had to stick to something else; I think I either dropped logging
diff --git a/css/misc.css b/css/misc.css
index 559ce44..ead7dd9 100644
--- a/css/misc.css
+++ b/css/misc.css
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
.reasonable-width {
max-width: 400px;
}
+.reasonable-width-wider {
+ max-width: 600px;
+}
div.panel-body figure.highlight pre {
margin-bottom: 0;
}