C++ Interface

The C++ interface to the Dinkum Threads Library is very similar to the thread support interface defined in the boost.threads library for C++. Some details of this implementation differ from the boost.threads implementation. For example, in this implementation classes and functions are enclosed in namespace Dinkum/threads instead of namespace boost. Implementation differences are marked as such, throughout this document, by a link to this paragraph.

The C++ interface consists of several headers:

"Dinkum/threads/condition" -- for defining a class that implements condition variables
"Dinkum/threads/exceptions" -- for defining several classes useful for reporting exceptions
"Dinkum/threads/mutex" -- for defining classes that implement mutual exclusion
"Dinkum/threads/once" -- for ensuring that initialization code is executed only once, from the first thread that needs the initialization
"Dinkum/threads/recursive_mutex" -- for defining classes that implement mutual exclusion
"Dinkum/threads/thread" -- for defining classes to manage execution threads and groups of execution threads
"Dinkum/threads/tss" -- for defining a template class that supports thread-specific data
"Dinkum/threads/xtime" -- for defining a struct and functions for high-resolution time operations

Here is an example program to illustrate the use of the C++ interface.

The C++ interface makes suitable use of templates and classes, but its functionality is otherwise quite similar to that described for the C interface.

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