Re: [boost] [Thread] Looking for co-maintainers

Subject: Re: [boost] [Thread] Looking for co-maintainers
From: tim (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-09 13:02:49

>>> The future implementation is NOT stable. I don't know when the bug was
>>> introduced, but it appears clearly now on the regression test as I have
>>> wrapped the test on a loop to increase the change of error.
>> Sorry, can I clarify, are you saying that the futures implementation
>> in present Boost.Thread is not reliable?
>>
>>
> This is what the regression test says :(
> 
> I started to see this bug with the clang asan11 tester, but looping on 
> the test shows that the problem is not limited to this particular 
> configuration.
> 
> I've worked hard to find out the issue but while I have found some minor 
> issues, I have not reached to mix all the problems that appear now on 
> the regression test.

btw, if the implementation used to work at one point and it is a
regression, it should be possible to find the first broken commit using
git-bisect ...