[openssl-dev] [openssl-team] Discussion: design issue: async and -lpthread

[Florian Weimer]

* Kurt Roeckx:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Nico Williams:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:19:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> >> > Maybe http://trac.mpich.org/projects/openpa/ would fit the bill?
>> >> 
>> >> It seems to have trouble to keep up with new architectures.
>> >
>> > New architectures are not really a problem because between a) decent
>> > compilers with C11 and/or non-C11 atomic intrinsics,
>> 
>> Not on Windows.
>> 
>> > What's the alternative anyways?
>> 
>> Using C++11.
>
> I think this is a relevant article:
> http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/

Based on the MSDN documentation, this (e.g. C++11 features implemented
in the MSVC C compiler) has not actually happened:

  <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/634ca0c2.aspx>