init_enter

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 init_leave 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

Parameters:

location

location of a static initializable variable containing 0

Returns:

true if the initialization section should be entered, false and blocks otherwise