G++ and constructors

[John Love-Jensen]

Note:

I put in the init_instance() presuming you wanted to do some extra work in
there -- such as whatever lock() and unlock() are doing.

If you don't need to do any extra work, then you can collapse it to the
simpler:

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myclass* myclass::get_instance() // public: static
{
  static myclass* instance = new myclass;
  return instance;
}
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Sorry if I previous more complicated example caused confusion.

--Eljay