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Subject: Re: [boost] [pool] Conversion to Boost.Thread for singleton_pool
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-24 09:58:35


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On Friday 24 October 2008 09:30 am, Chris Newbold wrote:
> >
> > TryEnterCriticalSection doesn't exist on windows 9x, and Lockable
> > includes a
> > try_lock() method.
>
> We still have to support Windows 9x, huh? Oh well... :)

I work much with windows so I don't care personally, but maybe compiler
support would be the larger issue. It is only with microsoft visual c++ 2008
that they stopped including windows 9x as a targeted platform by default. So
with visual c++ 2005 TryEnterCriticalSection doesn't exist by default.
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