[boost] boost::thread dependency on boost::chrono (windows implementation)

Subject: [boost] boost::thread dependency on boost::chrono (windows implementation)
From: Christian Hägele (haegele_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-27 10:42:00

Hello,

as boost::thread now depends on boost::chrono I have the following  
questions:

In boost::chrono on windows the the steady_clock is implemented via  
QueryPerformanceCounter. This may lead to wrong results because on some  
systems QueryPerformanceCounter gives different results on different  
processors.
In our software we encountered theses problems regularly on some customers  
machines and thus stopped using QueryPerformanceCounter without additional  
checking.
The problem I'm talking about is described as a TODO in  
boost/chrono/system_clocks.hpp

My questions is if functions like boost::thread::timed_join or  
boost::mutex::timed_wait may have similar problems on hardware where  
QueryPerformanceCounter gives wrong result. Is there a way (like a  
preprocessor macro) to have boost::thread use the old implementation  
independent from boost::chrono?

Regards,

Christian