Re: [dbus-cplusplus-devel] Ref counter system not thread safe?

[P. D. <sh...@gm...>]

>> From what i saw the ref counting sytem is not thread safe. Any idea how this could be
>> solved?
>>
> off the top of my head, the reference counting variable should be
> declared 'volatile', after that the compiler should be smart enough to
> use atomic intrinsics when incrementing/decrementing the counter, i'll
> change that now
>
on a second thought, one should never make this kind of assumptions,
atomicity has to be explicit, unfortunately this sacrifices some
portability.
I'll see what I can do, possibly without adding dependencies on
third-party libraries like APR or Boost.