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

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.