GCC: C0x11 threading support

Marc Glisse marc.glisse@inria.fr
Fri Nov 25 15:19:00 GMT 2011


On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> On 25 November 2011 08:59, Erotavlas_turbo@libero.it wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have read that the threading programming proposed in new C++ standard
>> (C0x11)
>
> (It was informally called C++0x but is now published and often
> referred to as C++11, but calling it C++0x11 makes no sense.)
>
>> is supported by GCC but only a small subset of features are available.
>> So for the moment is better to use the boost thread library (that should be the
>> same adopted by new standard, correct me if I'm wrong) or the complete support
>> by GCC is not so far?
>
> Since you suggest Boost as an alternative I assume you are only
> talking about the new library classes (since that's all Boost
> provides).  The library features are almost complete:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#status.iso.200x
>
> There is more work to be done for the core language features:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/GCCMM

Those don't seem to mention that the branch was recently merged into 
trunk. That doesn't make the support complete though.

-- 
Marc Glisse



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