Re: [boost] Boost.Threads - Questions

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-20 08:55:13

From: "Alexander Terekhov" <terekhov_at_[hidden]>
> > [1] No atomic_t, why?
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3AFA6932.4EADD8BB%40web.de
> http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3B016AF0.5E55E7A1%40web.de

I think that on win32, Interlocked* is supposed to be safe on multiple
processors. On platforms that don't have atomic primitives an atomic_t will
simply be a (mutex, long) pair.

As it stands, to make shared_ptr thread safe, I have to roll my own
atomic_t.

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.