Re: [boost] [thread] Questions about TSS

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-05 12:21:50

Andrey Semashev:
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> Agreed. And I for one would personally prefer to see a
> thread_specific_value instead of thread_specific_ptr in this case.

My favorite spelling is

    thread_specific< X > tx;

It can be made to work (I even had implemented it halfway once) but the 
problematic case is how to handle dynamically loaded (and unloaded) 
libraries with global/static thread_specific<> variables.

The shared_ptr-like deleter functionality is in this case simply spelled

    thread_specific< shared_ptr<X> > tpx;

Depending on how the thread_local storage class ends up being specified, we 
might still need to implement thread_specific at some point.