I know that std streams are not thread-safe (i.e., output can end up
becoming interleaved), but do they share mutable state? (At least in
libstdc++ 4.2 on Linux kernel 2.6.x?)
I just spent a long time tracking down a bug in my program where,
given enough threads, eventually all cout<<int would print in hex
rather than dec, even though I never used stream formatters. couts in
this program are called from multiple threads, and some couts around
the middle of my program ended up interleaved - couts before it are
fine, and later ones end up in hex. After removing the contentious
couts in the middle, the problem went away - no more hex.
Could this have been an effect of using the streams from multiple
threads? I've been searching a long time for memory bugs, but haven't
come up with anything. Thanks in advance for any hints.
becoming interleaved), but do they share mutable state? (At least in
libstdc++ 4.2 on Linux kernel 2.6.x?)
I just spent a long time tracking down a bug in my program where,
given enough threads, eventually all cout<<int would print in hex
rather than dec, even though I never used stream formatters. couts in
this program are called from multiple threads, and some couts around
the middle of my program ended up interleaved - couts before it are
fine, and later ones end up in hex. After removing the contentious
couts in the middle, the problem went away - no more hex.
Could this have been an effect of using the streams from multiple
threads? I've been searching a long time for memory bugs, but haven't
come up with anything. Thanks in advance for any hints.