request: extend, make atomic_count a public header file

[Bryan Green <bryan.d.green@…>]

Hello,

I believe this question is for Peter Dimov, as the author of atomic_count and sp_counted_base.

Have you considered making atomic_count.hpp a public header file, i.e. not in the 'detail' subdirectory, and adding some more traditional test-and-set type operations, such as post-increment and operator+=? This is a generally useful interface, and not easy to replicate on one's own in a portable way. As for the operations which are missing from the atomic_count class itself, it seems apparent from the implementation files for atomic_count.hpp and sp_counted_base_sync.hpp that these operations are available.

Is this something you are interested in doing, or do you have reservations about such a public class? Are you interested in help, in the form of patches? I'd be glad to contribute. It looks like all the hard work has already been done. :)

[Peter Dimov]

This functionality will be provided by the upcoming Boost.Atomic and C++0x.