Re: [boost] Strings and thread safety

From: Janek Kozicki (janek_listy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-08 14:56:08

Jeff Garland said:     (by the date of Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:24:24 -0700)

> If it were me, I'd guard any use of lexical cast I thought was to be used in 
> an MT context because it's a time-bomb waiting to fail.  I'm sorry to keep 
> going on about this, but the whole thread that spawned this one had the 
> embedded presumption that lexical_cast is thread-safe and I wanted to dispel 
> that myth -- it's obviously deeply entrenched.

Sorry about that, it's just when I hear "internal buffer" a bell rings
in my head and I think "thread safety". It's only because currently I'm
learning how to do concurrent programming.

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |