[cpp-threads] Re: "Agenda" for august 23-25 concurrency meeting

[Lawrence Crowl]

On 8/14/06, Boehm, Hans <hans.boehm at hp.com> wrote:
> Threads API
>         Approach?
>                 I (Hans) think the alternatives are
>                         A) Boost + modifications
>                         B) More drastic redesign
>                         C) fallback: something minimal to let us talk
>                         about threads in the standard while using
>                         Boost/pthreads/win32/... in real programs

I think there are more issues/alternatives.  Topics include
C interoperability, syntax versus library, etc.

>         Issues that are probably open either way:
>                 Constructor/destructor handling.
>                 Exception propagation past joins?
>                 Any cancellation support?
>         Probably many other issues.

Many of these issues were addressed here:


>         Lawrence's summary of the other threads API discussion at the
> Berlin
>         C++ meeting (Ugly version at
>
> http://www.decadentplace.org.uk/pipermail/cpp-threads/2006-April/000928.
> html.
>         Extract to html file.)

-- 
Lawrence Crowl