Re: [boost] Future of Boost.Thread, date-time, and C++0x

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-08 11:30:45

Howard Hinnant wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Anthony Williams wrote:

> The standard containers are an integral part of the proposed  
> std::thread package.  Without move support in the standard containers  
> useful structures such as vector<thread> are going to be missing.  The  
> lack of thread factory functions will also be unfortunate until  
> compilers (such as gcc 4.3, boostcon and CodeWarrior 10) support  
> returning move-only types from functions.

That's a good point.  FWIW, OSL is running regressions with gcc4_3 in 0x mode 
so we could take advantage of whatever's in there for now.  I assume they will 
be willing to upgrade as new features become available.

Jeff