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The C++ Standard Library

You're reading from   The C++ Standard Library What every professional C++ programmer should know about the C++ standard library.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838981129
Length 251 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rainer Grimm Rainer Grimm
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Reader Testimonials FREE CHAPTER Introduction 1. The Standard Library 2. Utilities 3. Interface of All Containers 4. Sequential Containers 5. Associative Container 6. Adaptors for Containers 7. Iterators 8. Callable Units 9. Algorithms 10. Numeric 11. Strings 12. String Views 13. Regular Expressions 14. Input and Output Streams 15. Filesystem library 16. Multithreading Index

Threads

To use the multithreading interface of C++ you need the header <thread>.

Creation

A thread std::thread represents an executable unit. This executable unit, which the thread immediately starts, gets its work package as a callable unit. A callable unit can be a function, a function object or a lambda function:

Thread creation
// threadCreate.cpp 
...
#include <thread>
...
using namespace std;

void helloFunction(){
  cout << "function" << endl;
}

class HelloFunctionObject {
public:
  void operator()() const {
    cout << "function object" << endl;
  }
};

thread t1(helloFunction);                      // function

HelloFunctionObject helloFunctionObject;
thread t2(helloFunctionObject);                // function object

thread t3([]{ cout << "lambda function"; });   // lambda function

Lifetime

The creator of a thread has to take care of the lifetime of its created thread. The executable unit of...

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