Re: [boost] Help with a shared_ptr problem on Android (ARM)

Subject: Re: [boost] Help with a shared_ptr problem on Android (ARM)
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-04-17 13:21:49

On Thursday 17 April 2014 18:00:29 Phil Endecott wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
> > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9912
> > 
> > reports that spinlock_gcc_arm.hpp segfaults on a Nexus 7.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about ARM or Android, so I wonder if
> > someone can help with that.
> 
> It would be great if shared_ptr could just use boost::atomic, as I have
> previously suggested.  We would then just have one place where the
> platform-specific atomic asm needed to be maintained.

+1.

I also wanted to let you know that I started a major refactoring of 
Boost.Atomic. One of the positive outcomes of this work should be a design 
more friendly to header-only user libraries.