On 6/27/06, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:

"Thomas Matelich" <matelich@gmail.com> writes:

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I use boost::any for sending data to my thread's command queue, and I need to send a shared_ptr in. I'm looking for any one to tell me this is fine or bad. Based on my understanding of boost::any I think it will be fine, but I'm slightly concerned I'll screw up the reference count somehow.

Can anyone confirm or allay my fears?

Allay :)

Thanks. Unfortunately, I just ran into boost/config/platforms/hpux.hpp and its belief that gcc and threads don't mix on HP-UX. I'm not sure why this is stated. Perhaps its left over from HP 10.x and DCE threads? I've been using gcc and threads for a long time, even back on 10.20 using ACE. I currently use both ACE thread wrappers and Qt's threads wrappers on 11i with gcc 3.2.3. I would just go ahead and comment out that assumption, but I'm concerned someone knows something I don't know. It looks like Jens Maurer added this assumption 2 years ago ( http://tinyurl.com/ku9wm ). Has anyone experimented with removing it? I'd really like mutexes for my shared pointers. Short-term, I'm currently working on a patch release and wouldn't really want to mess with every shared pointer in my whole system. I guess my workaround would be to wrap the shared_ptr in a mutexed_shared_ptr and lock every option that messes with the shared count?