Re: [boost] [interprocess] Boost.Thread developers willing to help on interprocess condition vars?

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-28 11:08:08

Ion Gazta?aga wrote:
> Since there is no atomic operations library in Boost I use my own atomic 
> operations (taken from apache):
>
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/boost/interprocess/detail/atomic.hpp

It would be great to make this a publicly-visible library, rather than 
an implementation detail of interprocess.  That would avoid duplication 
of effort in e.g. shared_ptr.

Note that recent-ish versions of gcc have builtins for atomic 
operations on many platforms.

Phil.