Re: [Boost-users] Question About Thread-Safety of boost::bind Library

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-15 04:31:57

john.davison_at_[hidden] wrote:
> When I see placeholder variables ("_1", "_2", etc.) in Boost.Bind,
> the first thing that comes to my mind is, what are the effects of
> this on reentrancy and thread-safety in the Boost.Bind library?
> What must one watch out for when attempting to use the Boost.Bind
> library in a multithreaded program?

I'm not sure what your concerns are. Every bind expression that uses 
placeholder variables makes its own copies of them, and even if it didn't, 
placeholders have no state.