Re: [boost] [thread] test_lock* and test_move* failures on trunk

From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-21 17:03:21

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Anthony Williams:
>
>> Shall I hold off committing a fix to boost::thread for now, then?
>
> I've taken the liberty of fixing it to use type<void>(), extending it to 9 
> arguments and adding a member function test. Please take a look at revision 
> 45621; I hope I didn't do anything wrong. We'll probably want to add a 
> normal function test along the same lines, and possibly use variadic 
> templates when available.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

> As a note, it seems that the two thread classes (win32, pthread) need to be 
> refactored in some way since now they can desync. For example, the win32 
> thread uses rvalue references, and the pthread one does not. 

Yes. I think that the implementations are more similar than they are
different. The rvalue reference stuff is a work in progress.

Anthony
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