Re: [Boost-users] New to Boost C++ - Dynamic Arrays

From: Maik Beckmann (beckmann.maik_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-04 16:33:12

Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 18:59:20 schrieb Jean-Sebastien Stoezel:
> Hello,
>
> I am interested in supporting dynamic arrays in my C++ application. I
> read about STL, which somehow brought me to Boost C++...
>
> I see Boost C++ provides the Array library, which only seems to
> support static arrays... Does Boost C++ support dynamic arrays? Any
> example I could use to understand how this work?
> By any means, would this dynamic array library be thread safe?
>
> Thanks!
> Jean

A dynamic array is part of the stl and called vector
  http://cppreference.com/cppvector/index.html
  http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/vector

It isn't thread safe out of the box, but boost gives you what you need to make 
access mutual exclusive
  http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/thread.html
in a portable way (POSIX, Windows,...)

Best,
 -- Maik