Ben Hutchings wrote:

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:

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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/).

Thanks for the pointer. But is it not possible that Boost expands its implementation to other platforms? At least in the form of shared mutex locking in non-implemented-in-a-proper-way cases, with appropriate note in docs? I would really appreciate atomic operations as an addition to the Boost Threads library and avoid more dependencies... Paul