-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 07 April 2009, joaquin@tid.es wrote:
Looks like a sensible part of Boost.Threads, namely that dealing with mutexes and locks, would be header-only but for its relying on boost/thread/exceptions.hpp, whose implementation is located at /libs/thread/*/exceptions.cpp.
Given that this .cpp mostly consists of extremely simple definitions (as simple as do-nothing functions in many cases), would it make sense to move this to inline definitions in boost/thread/exceptions.hpp thus making mutexes and locks header-only? This would greatly enhance the appeal of this part of Boost.Threads, as having to link a separate module is a considerable burden.
I second the motion. It may also allow boost::mutex to replace detail/lightweight_mutex.hpp and signals2/mutex.hpp. The last I heard, boost/thread/mutex.hpp and locks.hpp were actually intended to be header-only. Maybe adding a trac ticket about it would help? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknbVjwACgkQ5vihyNWuA4WkfgCfeM5UU7C3IgNckQAZg/MsdL6w +z4AoInDMhstWTMbsx6mb+V72Mw0fWIo =j8Bv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----