thread safety on public variables access
boost, c++, getter-setter, mutex, thread-safety
Solution
There is a similar library in Boost, boost::atomic but it's not yet included in the standard AFAIK.
Problem
I have some private variables (say int a, int b, int c) inside my class. Due to some internal manipulations I need to set/get such variables in a thread safe way so I used some wrapping getters/setters and used a scoped mutex. ``` void setA(int a) { unique_lock<mutex> lock(opMutex); this->a = a; } void getA(int a) { unique_lock<mutex> lock(opMutex); return a; } void setB(int b) { unique_lock<mutex> lock(opMutex); this->b = b; } void setC(int c) { unique_lock<mutex> lock(opMutex); this->c = c; } ``` My question is: is it possbile to avoid getter/setter methods (public variables) and keep thread safety on assign/read operations over such variables?