[boost] Re: lightweight mutex for MacOS

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-27 18:35:33

On Jan 27, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:

> Martin Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I would like to put forward an implementation of a lightweight mutex
>> for MacOS.
>> I have tested it with shared_ptr_mt_test.cpp without problem.
>
> You don't have proper memory barriers for MP-safety. Abusing the
> scheduler is also not good.

Do you have any specific suggestions which would make this design at 
least as good as that in lwm_gcc.hpp?

-Howard