I am writing a multi-threaded app whereby different writers will be pushing objects onto a stack and readers pulling them off the stack (or at least pushing the pointer to an object)..
Are there any structures built-into C++ which can handle this without adding locking code etc.? If not, what about the Boost libraries?
EDIT:
I guess one reason I thought this could be built-in was that I was thinking purely in x86 space and thought that a PUSH/POP of pointers should be an atomic action at the instruction level.
I'm not sure if my initial hunch is true or not, but I guess this would not necessarily be true across all platforms. Though if running on x86, do you get atomic PUSHes and POPs to the stack and if so, does this essentially make it lock-free?