main() function or from pthread_once(). Note that this must be a raw pointer, not a “smart” pointer, since the smart pointer’s destructor will have the order-of-destructor issue that we are trying to avoid what you see elsewhere. Ownership and Smart Pointers Prefer to have single, fixed owners for dynamically allocated objects. Prefer to transfer ownership with smart pointers. “Ownership” is a bookkeeping transferred from one piece of code to another. “Smart” pointers are classes that act like pointers, e.g. by overloading the * and -> operators. Some smart pointer types can be used to automate ownership

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