std::string & multithreading

[Radu Marginean]

Hi,

Currently std::string cannot be safely used in a multithreaded environment due to features like copy on write and reference counting. Even programs that access two unrelated different string objects in a multicore machine may suffer random crashes. 

Rogue Wave for example has a compiler option which allows linking with a version of the STL library that can be safely used in a multithreaded application.  Is there any such option available for gcc? If not are there plans to introduce one? 

Thank you,
Radu