Re: [boost] [any] new version

Subject: Re: [boost] [any] new version
From: Mika Heiskanen (mika.heiskanen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-05 15:21:25

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 21:17 +0300, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> on Mon Sep 05 2011, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard-AT-ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
> > The C++11 standard (the only one aware of multithreading) mandates
> > that initialization of static variables at function scope is
> > thread-safe.
> 
> Really?  I didn't pay attention to ever twist or turn of the process of
> standardizing multithreading, but it greatly surprises me to hear that,
> because it would impose an overhead on those function-static variables
> that don't need synchronization.  Can you cite the paragraphs that give
> this guarantee?

In this draft version

  http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3035.pdf

the relevant paragraph seems to be 6.7.4.

Mika Heiskanen