Re: [Boost-users] Memory management of boost::mutex

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Memory management of boost::mutex
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-12 13:07:56

Markus Henschel <markus.henschel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> we have a custom memory manager that overrides global new/delete. It
> is currently not thread safe. Because we require thread safety now I
> wanted to ad a mutex and some locks around the critical
> parts. Unfortunately boost::mutex allocates memory itself. 

boost::mutex does not directly allocate any memory itself, so this
should not be a problem. Which version of boost are you using, on which
platform?

Anthony
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