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- The Boost.Regex library is thread safe when Boost is: you can verify that
- Boost is in thread safe mode by checking to see if <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">BOOST_HAS_THREADS</span></code>
- is defined: this macro is set automatically by the config system when threading
- support is turned on in your compiler.
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- Class <a class="link" href="../ref/basic_regex.html" title="basic_regex"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">basic_regex</span></code></a>
- and its typedefs regex and wregex are thread safe, in that compiled regular
- expressions can safely be shared between threads. The matching algorithms
- <a class="link" href="../ref/regex_match.html" title="regex_match"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">regex_match</span></code></a>,
- <a class="link" href="../ref/regex_search.html" title="regex_search"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">regex_search</span></code></a>,
- and <a class="link" href="../ref/regex_replace.html" title="regex_replace"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">regex_replace</span></code></a>
- are all re-entrant and thread safe. Class <a class="link" href="../ref/match_results.html" title="match_results"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">match_results</span></code></a> is now thread safe,
- in that the results of a match can be safely copied from one thread to another
- (for example one thread may find matches and push <a class="link" href="../ref/match_results.html" title="match_results"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">match_results</span></code></a> instances onto a queue,
- while another thread pops them off the other end), otherwise use a separate
- instance of <a class="link" href="../ref/match_results.html" title="match_results"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">match_results</span></code></a>
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- The <a class="link" href="../ref/posix.html" title="POSIX Compatible C API's">POSIX API functions</a> are
- all re-entrant and thread safe, regular expressions compiled with regcomp
- can also be shared between threads.
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- The <a class="link" href="../ref/deprecated/old_regex.html" title="High Level Class RegEx (Deprecated)">class RegEx</a>
- is only thread safe if each thread gets its own RegEx instance (apartment
- threading) - this is a consequence of RegEx handling both compiling and matching
- regular expressions.
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- Finally note that changing the global locale invalidates all compiled regular
- expressions, therefore calling <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">set_locale</span></code>
- from one thread while another uses regular expressions will produce unpredictable
- results.
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- There is also a requirement that there is only one thread executing prior
- to the start of main().
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