Robert Ramey wrote:
The reason I ask is that the serialization library uses spirit to parse xml archives. Recently, I made changes to make the library thread-safe. I did this without using mutexes/locks by confine all non-const operations to construction and destruction and using static object constructed/destructed at pre-main and post main time time. Although the jury is still out on this, I believe it will make the serialization library thread safe without the need for using threading primitives and libraries.
What happens if one explicitly loads a dynamic library, which uses serialization? I'd guess the types serialized by that library should be added to the global table of serialized type (at least for types marked with BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT), so it's non-const operation done after main. Am I missing something? - Volodya