Re: [boost] Notice: Boost.Atomic (atomic operations library)

Helge Bahmann wrote:

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Vicente Botet Escriba wrote:

I'm not sure if the free-standing functions are of too much value (personally I dislike them for C++), I will certainly add them if someone wants them, but probably it would be preferrable for them not to live in the root namespace "boost".

I think, free standing functions can be useful if one needs to operate on a POD type (which atomic<T> isn't). For example, one could safely use functions with local statics.