Can I declare dispatch_once_t predicate as a member variable instead of static?

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dispatch_once_t must not be an instance variable.

The implementation of dispatch_once() requires that the dispatch_once_t is zero, and has never been non-zero. The previously-not-zero case would need additional memory barriers to work correctly, but dispatch_once() omits those barriers for performance reasons.

Instance variables are initialized to zero, but their memory may have previously stored another value. This makes them unsafe for dispatch_once() use.

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