Re: Call for volunteers for C/C++ API liaison manager

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Sun, 04 May 2014 08:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for volunteers for C/C++ API liaison manager
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
To: Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it>
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On 2 May 2014 13:12, Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:

> On Thu 01/May/2014 04:36:49 +0200 Melinda Shore wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking of IPSec, newer DNS features, etc.  I think it's very
> > much in the interest of the IETF to have someone around who can
> > talk to some of the language standards bodies about how to expose
> > protocol features, how to deal with options, etc.
>
> +1.  But I don't think the call refers to "language standards".  C and
> C++, in particular, don't standardize such fundamental features as
> multithreading.


C++11 has multithreading in both the model and the standard library - I
suspect you may well be a few years out of date.

Dave.