Chapter 10. Threading
The subject of multithreading is a pretty big one, and worthy of several books all to itself [Bute1997, Rich1997]. In an attempt to simplify, I intend to stipulate that the challenges of multithreaded programming all pertain to synchronization of access to resources. The resources may be a single variable, a class, or they may even be some product of one thread that is to be consumed by another. The point is that if two or more threads need to access the same resource their access needs to be made safe. Alas, both C and C++ were developed before multithreading became as popular as it now is. Hence:
What does that mean? Well, in no part of the standard will you find any reference ...
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