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Re: [wg14/wg21 liaison] Fwd: native_handle_type

From: Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:29:50 +0100
On 19/08/2019 19:04, Billy O'Neal (VC LIBS) via Liaison wrote:
> LEWGi looked at this in Cologne and said that they don’t want it, so I’m
> not sure it’s appropriate to bug WG14 at this time:
> http://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/Wg21cologne2019/P1759

That vote appears to have assumed an ABI breaking replacement of
std::thread::native_handle_type etc.

> Note also that the *existence* of such members is implementation
> defined, so an implementation can define that they don’t exist.

Under my proposal, native handle types can be invalid i.e. empty.

Niall

Received on 2019-08-20 05:32:03