Is enough just to declare all of the functions as transaction_safe
in some my class, so its can be used as thread-safe in transactions atomic_noexcept, atomic_cancel, atomic_commit
from Experimental Transactional Memory TS?
As known there are Transactional Memory TS (ISO/IEC TS 19841:2015) in the Experimental C++ standard libraries. Simple examples are here: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/transactional_memory
Also there is Technical Specification for C++ Extensions for Transactional Memory: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4514.pdf
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23.4 Associative containers [associative]
23.4.4 Class template map [map]
23.4.4.1 Class template map overview [map.overview]
In 23.4.4.1 [map.overview], add "transaction_safe" to the declarations of all
variants of the begin and end member functions and to
the declarations of size, max_size, and empty.
I.e. if Transactional Memory will commit to the C++ Standard, then can we simply do something like this and will it thread-safe?
#include<map>
#include<thread>
std::map<int, int> m;
int main() {
std::thread t1([&m]() {
atomic_cancel
{
m[1] = 1; // thread-safe
}
} );
t1.join();
return 0;
}
Unfortunately, I can't reproduce example with atomic_cancel {}
even with key -fgnu-tm
on GCC 6.1: https://godbolt.org/g/UcV4wI
And will enough just to declare all of the functions as transaction_safe
in some my class, so its can be used as thread-safe - if I will call its in scope: atomic_cancel { obj.func(); }
?
The compound-statement in an atomic block is not allowed to execute any expression or statement or call any function that isn't transaction_safe
std::map<int, int>::operator[]
wouldn't be a transaction_safe
method, so you couldn't call it in atomic_cancel. It would be a compile time error.