Re: [Boost-users] Boost Atomic ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Atomic ?
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-30 03:52:13

> > unfortunately i do not know any compiler which already implements c++0x
> > atomics, so if your platform is supported by boost.atomic, it is
> > probably the best solution until real c++0x atomics are widely available
> > ...
> 
> I'm happily using c++0x atomics with g++ and libstdc++ 4.6.0 and haven't
> found any missing bits yet.

the implementation is incomplete (compare [1]). compiling boost.lockfree with 
g++-4.6 using c++0x atomics results in lots of undefined references to 
std::atomic<> members ...

tim

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html