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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
2<!DOCTYPE library PUBLIC "-//Boost//DTD BoostBook XML V1.0//EN"
3  "http://www.boost.org/tools/boostbook/dtd/boostbook.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % threads.entities SYSTEM "entities.xml">
5  %threads.entities;
6]>
7<section id="thread.configuration" last-revision="$Date: 2004/07/17 04:33:59 $">
8        <title>Configuration</title>
9        <para>&Boost.Threads; uses several configuration macros in &lt;boost/config.hpp&gt;,
10        as well as configuration macros meant to be supplied by the application. These
11        macros are documented here.
12        </para>
13        <section id="thread.configuration.public">
14                <title>Library Defined Public Macros</title>
15                <para>
16        These macros are defined by &Boost.Threads; but are expected to be used
17        by application code.
18                </para>
19                <informaltable>
20                        <tgroup cols="2">
21                                <thead>
22                                        <row>
23                                                <entry>Macro</entry>
24                                                <entry>Meaning</entry>
25                                        </row>
26                                </thead>
27                                <tbody>
28                                        <row>
29                                                <entry>BOOST_HAS_THREADS</entry>
30                                                <entry>
31        Indicates that threading support is available. This means both that there
32        is a platform specific implementation for &Boost.Threads; and that
33        threading support has been enabled in a platform specific manner. For instance,
34        on the Win32 platform there&#39;s an implementation for &Boost.Threads;
35        but unless the program is compiled against one of the multithreading runtimes
36        (often determined by the compiler predefining the macro _MT) the BOOST_HAS_THREADS
37        macro remains undefined.
38                                                </entry>
39                                        </row>
40                                </tbody>
41                        </tgroup>
42                </informaltable>
43        </section>
44        <section id="thread.configuration.implementation">
45                <title>Library Defined Implementation Macros</title>
46                <para>
47        These macros are defined by &Boost.Threads; and are implementation details
48        of interest only to implementors.
49                </para>
50                <informaltable>
51                        <tgroup cols="2">
52                                <thead>
53                                        <row>
54                                                <entry>Macro</entry>
55                                                <entry>Meaning</entry>
56                                        </row>
57                                </thead>
58                                <tbody>
59                                        <row>
60                                                <entry>BOOST_HAS_WINTHREADS</entry>
61                                                <entry>
62        Indicates that the platform has the Microsoft Win32 threading libraries,
63        and that they should be used to implement &Boost.Threads;.
64                                    </entry>
65                                        </row>
66                                        <row>
67                                                <entry>BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS</entry>
68                                                <entry>
69        Indicates that the platform has the POSIX pthreads libraries, and that
70        they should be used to implement &Boost.Threads;.
71                                                </entry>
72                                        </row>
73                                        <row>
74                                                <entry>BOOST_HAS_FTIME</entry>
75                                                <entry>
76        Indicates that the implementation should use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()
77        and the FILETIME type to calculate the current time. This is an implementation
78        detail used by boost::detail::getcurtime().
79                                                </entry>
80                                        </row>
81                                        <row>
82                                                <entry>BOOST_HAS_GETTTIMEOFDAY</entry>
83                                                <entry>
84        Indicates that the implementation should use gettimeofday() to calculate
85        the current time. This is an implementation detail used by boost::detail::getcurtime().
86                                                </entry>
87                                        </row>
88                                </tbody>
89                        </tgroup>
90                </informaltable>
91        </section>
92</section>
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