How to easily make std::cout thread-safe?

Question

I have a multi-threaded application, which heavily uses std::cout for logging without any locking. In such a case, how can I easily add lock mechanism to make <

Answer 1

Since C++20, you can use std::osyncstream wrapper:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_osyncstream

{
  std::osyncstream bout(std::cout); // synchronized wrapper for std::cout
  bout << "Hello, ";
  bout << "World!";
  bout << std::endl; // flush is noted, but not yet performed
  bout << "and more!\n";
} // characters are transferred and std::cout is flushed

It provides the guarantee that all output made to the same final destination buffer (std::cout in the examples above) will be free of data races and will not be interleaved or garbled in any way, as long as every write to the that final destination buffer is made through (possibly different) instances of std::basic_osyncstream.