Re: [boost] call_once, headers and shared libraries

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-05 17:03:44

Johan Råde wrote:
> I discussed Joaquin's solution with John, in a private mail.
> John told me that Joaquin's solution is sound,
> but depends on Boost.Interprocess.
> It is a very clever solution.
> And it is the first solution I have ever seen to this problem.
>
> But to me it seems undesirable to have a light-weight library,
> such as the floating point utilities, depend on a heavy-weight
> library, such as Boost.Interprocess.
>   
Sounds like this component should extracted from Interprocess, if 
possible, and made available to libraries as a standalone component. 
According to your description, many libraries are in need of using it to 
avoid subtle bugs.

Sebastian Redl