Seems like this has come up for me enough in discussing C++ with others, that it might help to put together the information in this gist.
Standard C++ has since C++11 required that block-scope variables with static or thread storage duration get initialized in a thread safe way. Besides there being a StackOverflow answer - to a related question - showing some example assembly for C++11 that includes thread safe guards, there's also the C++ standard documents themselves.
What follows is the specific requirement by versions of the standard.
