Re: [Boost-users] what are movable objects

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Abbhishek Misra

wrote:

Hello Boost Users,

I'm trying to learn multi threading in C++.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html

says

"Objects of type boost::thread are movable, however, so they can be stored in move-aware containers, and returned from functions."

Please help me understand what are movable objects.

Moveable objects are objects supporting move semantics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Rvalue_reference_and_move_semantics for a rather dry account of move semantics, or probably better see http://cpp-next.com/archive/2009/08/want-speed-pass-by-value/ where Dave A tells us all about it. HTH - Rob.