Re: [Boost-users] Regex lib and thread safety

From: Leon Mergen (leon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-26 15:27:33

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:14:36PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> That is not specifically about thread-safety in Boost.Regex; the 
> initialisation of local static variables is generally not done in a 
> thread-safe way even by implementations that are intended to support 
> multithreaded programs, and this goes for variables of any type.
> 
> I can tell you for certain, though, that std::string is not thread-safe 
> in libstdc++ (see <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10350>). 
>  That might be the source of the problem.

Hi Ben,

Ok, I will look into it tomorrow when I'm back at work. Thanks for your
reply.

Regards,

Leon Mergen