Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.
John Nagle
Animats
Well, on QNX all of these things are POSIX. Take a look at CommonC++,
it provides nice versions of all of these things.
chris
John Nagle <nagle@downside.com> wrote:
Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.John Nagle
Animats
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Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/
I just looked at “Common C++”. It looks like a basically good
idea, buried under layers of GNU macro-based portability junk.
It doesn’t even do mutexes inline; it calls its own library.
There’s way too much irrelevant stuff in there, including an
XML parser(!). I was looking for something lightweight.
But if it’s available as a proper QNX repository, it
might be worth installing. Is it? I’m not going to
port that monster when I need only a few pages of code.
John Nagle
Animats
Chris McKillop wrote:
Well, on QNX all of these things are POSIX. Take a look at CommonC++,
it provides nice versions of all of these things.chris
John Nagle <> nagle@downside.com> > wrote:Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.John Nagle
Animats
Rather than struggling with that code, I rewrote
the “Mutex” and “Semaphore” classes from “Common C++”.
All C++, all inline, no macros, no autoconf. Also added
a templated bounded buffer class to replace the non-typesafe
bounded buffer class provided. All the classic Dijkstra
primitives. I’ll put them on my web site in a week or so.
License: LGPL.
John Nagle
Animats
John Nagle wrote:
I just looked at “Common C++”. It looks like a basically good
idea, buried under layers of GNU macro-based portability junk.
It doesn’t even do mutexes inline; it calls its own library.
There’s way too much irrelevant stuff in there, including an
XML parser(!). I was looking for something lightweight.But if it’s available as a proper QNX repository, it
might be worth installing. Is it? I’m not going to
port that monster when I need only a few pages of code.John Nagle
AnimatsChris McKillop wrote:
Well, on QNX all of these things are POSIX. Take a look at CommonC++,
it provides nice versions of all of these things.chris
John Nagle <> nagle@downside.com> > wrote:Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.John Nagle
Animats
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Have you look at http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html
“John Nagle” <nagle@downside.com> wrote in message
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Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.John Nagle
Animats
It’s lightweight and LGPL, no warranty whatsoever, it should work.
It was use successfully in some university graduate level real-time
projects.
There’s a wrapper for Message Namespace, Messaging, Thread, Mutex,
Semaphore, Read-Write lock, consumer/producer with buffer or messaging
examples,
Timer with Signal or Pulse, etc.
I suggest you to test it heavilly just in case. Submit any patch! 
You can wrap around sem_t -OR- mutex and cond_var for Semaphore.
That version of Semaphore doesn’t use pthread_cond_var_t,
so it has a known broken priority inversion bug.
I suggest a wrap around sem_t it safer but less portable.
I forgot where I put that fixed version but you can fix it easily, with 10
lines of code.
Sincerely yours,
Fred.
fprog -at- users.sf.net
Java-to-C++ library Neutrino branch - j2k/nto/
Feel free to modify the headers path if needed, but plz give the appropriate
credits =)
Download the entire thing here:
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/j2k/j2k30oct2001.zip
Delete any files which you don’t need.
You can view the code online here:
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Basic_PThread.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Basic_PThread.cpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Basic_PThread.inl
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Mutex.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Mutex.cpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Mutex.inl
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/RWLock.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/RWLock.cpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/RWLock.inl
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Semaphore.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Semaphore.cpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/nto/Semaphore.inl
Standard headers for portability.
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/Fred/Standard.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/Fred/Basic.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/Fred/Boolean.hpp
http://j2k.sourceforge.net/src/j2k/Fred/StdTypes.hpp
John Nagle wrote in message <3E32DBD0.4000506@downside.com>…
I just looked at “Common C++”. It looks like a basically good
idea, buried under layers of GNU macro-based portability junk.
It doesn’t even do mutexes inline; it calls its own library.
There’s way too much irrelevant stuff in there, including an
XML parser(!). I was looking for something lightweight.But if it’s available as a proper QNX repository, it
might be worth installing. Is it? I’m not going to
port that monster when I need only a few pages of code.John Nagle
AnimatsChris McKillop wrote:
Well, on QNX all of these things are POSIX. Take a look at CommonC++,
it provides nice versions of all of these things.chris
John Nagle <> nagle@downside.com> > wrote:Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.John Nagle
Animats
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Boost threads is the best wrapper available - it is forming the basis of the
addition of threads to the C++ standard. See www.boost.org. The POSIX
implementation should compile on QNX.
Tom
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Is there a recommended C++ wrapper library for
QNX threads, semaphores, and mutexes? I hate to have
to re-invent the wheel here.John Nagle
Animats