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Document number: N3589

Date: 2013-03-15

Summary of Progress Since Portland towards Transactional Language Constructs for C++

by Hans Boehm, Justin Gottschlich, Victor Luchangco, Maged Michael, Mark Moir, Torvald Riegel, Michael Scott, Michael Spear, Tatiana Shpeisman, Michael Wong

Excerpt:

We restrict attention in this document to issues that we have agreed upon for the next version of the specification, which we are preparing. Other accompanying documents are:

• Draft Specification of Transactional Language Constructs for C++(v1.1) [1]
• Summary of discussions on explicit cancellation (N3591) [2]
• Alternative proposal for cancellation and exceptions (N3592) [3]