Do I need to protect read access to an STL container in a multithreading environment?

Question

I have one std::list<> container and these threads:

• One writer thread which adds elements indefinitely.

• One reader/writer thread which re

Answer 1

The STL in VC++ version 6 is not thread-safe, see this recent question. So it seems your question is a bit irrelevant. Even if you did everything right, you may still have problems.