Re: [Mingw-users] C++11 thread support in MinGW?

[K. F. <kfr...@gm...>]

Hi Yongwei!

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Yongwei Wu <wuy...@gm...> wrote:
> On 22 March 2013 22:16, niXman <i.n...@gm...> wrote:
>> 2013/3/22 Yongwei Wu:
>>> GCC 4.7 does not support futures. GCC 4.8 will.
>>
>> You are mistaken ;)
>> http://liveworkspace.org/code/3OCLX0$0
>
> Oops, memory got corrupt. In fact, I successfully compiled a future
> test under Linux GCC 4.6 (I am repeating it now; I am not sure whether
> I tested on 4.7), but I considered it a failure and forgot about it,
> since the async part did not execute in parallel! And the header file
> is missing on Windows, probably because the runtime support is even
> more incomplete. Then I mixed things together.

One more data point:  Futures worked for me as far back as 4.5.2 using
a mingw-w64 build with which I used the pthreads-w64 that came with
it to activate std::thread support.  I was able to pass both values and
exceptions back through the future.

> ...
> Wu Yongwei

Happy Future Hacking!


K. Frank