This symbol is defined as a static member object inside of a
boost detail header. When boost headers are used in a project
that uses Boost in both the main binary as well as dlopen()'d
shlibs, the top_ symbol gets duplicated and the metadata gets
partitioned.
We use the Boost shlib to unify both the main binary and the
shlibs to use the same memory address for top_.
This involves marking the templated object call_stack::top_ as
"extern" and then declaring to Boost that we intend to use the
shlibs.
This leverages the new clean dynamic allocation of the globalMind
object to make the mrntt::main and SMO's initialization and
shutdown much cleaner. We no longer concern ourselves with
shutting down the Mind threads inside of mrntt::main, but rather
we leave that state machine to the Mind class and Mrntt component.
This makes the initialization sequence much cleaner and conceptually
well encapsulated.
We also now dynamically allocate the Mind objects. They're allocated
dynamically by Mrntt inside of initializeReq. This means that we no
longer have to worry about jolting and cleaning up the running threads
of global mind object even when we never explicitly called
Mind.initializeReq.
Along with other conceptual improvements to our abstractions, this
patch also gets us to a real "end of program initialization" point
for the first time.
hayodea