[cpp-threads] Draft Plan for Threads in C++
Peter Dimov
pdimov at mmltd.net
Sat Apr 30 11:38:17 BST 2005
Boehm, Hans wrote:
> I would actually lean towards "always implemented, with feature tests
> to determine whether it's an emulation".
My vote goes to "implementation defined if unimplementable in a lock-free
manner on the platform."
I'm not sure whether we should acknowledge one possible emulation strategy
that uses the variable being manipulated as a spinlock by reserving a
sentinel value.
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