May 2000
Volume 18 Number 5
MULTITHREADING
Using Predicate Waits with Win32 Threads
David M. Howard
Most Win32 synchronization primitives are just that — primitive. But you can use them to build queues that are safe and easy to use.
Integrating Threads with Template Classes
Charles Calkins
It's obviously a good idea to encapsulate a thread as an object. It is less obvious how to get all the interfaces right.
Thread-Safe Access to Collections
Jeff Kleber
The best place to store a thread lock for a shared container is somewhere inside the container — deep inside.
FEATURES
Visualizing Depth Images via Rendering
Dwayne Phillips
In case you thought that Dwayne Phillips had exhausted the topic of imaging in these pages, here's another interesting installment.
Catching Untested Return Codes
Marc Guillemot
Who watches the watchers, at least to make sure they're watching? This class does.
State Machine Design in C++
David Lafreniere
It's not all that hard to implement a finite-state machine, unless it's very large, and you have to worry about multithreading, and ...
C/C++ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Standard C/C++: exit(0)
P. J. Plauger
All good things must come to an end.
The Journeyman's Shop: When "Retro" Is Better
Pete Becker
The old ways aren't always the best ways, but they often are pretty darned good.
Uncaught Exceptions: Remembrance
Bobby Schmidt
Bobby finds still more to warn about when playing fast and loose with pointers, smart pointers, and arrays.