Re: [Boost-users] request: make atomic operations (boost/detail/atomic_count*) available for library users

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-08 10:45:25

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is it possible that atomic operations in Boost are made available for
>library users?  `shared_ptr' is good, but sometimes one might need the
>low-level operations too.
>  
>
The atomic operations are likely to remain an internal detail as they 
are only available on some Boost platforms. You're probably better off 
investigating Hans Boehm's libatomic_ops 
(http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/). There is a rough 
proposed C++ interface for
atomic ops at 
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/c++mm/atomics.h.txt which I 
think is meant to implementable using libatomic_ops.
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/c++mm/atomics.h.txt>

Ben.