From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-06-15 11:24:10
On 11 Jun 2025 02:34, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There were quite a few times when I wanted to use bitwise operations on
> atomic<enum>, where the enum lists a number of flags that could be
> combined with bitwise AND, OR and XOR. Neither std::atomic nor
> Boost.Atomic enables bitwise operations for enums, so I had to resort to
> workarounds, such as using atomic<underlying_type_t<enum>> with explicit
> casts to and from the underlying type of the enum. Obviously, this is
> rather tedious, and I would prefer not to have to do this.
I have now implemented this in Boost.Atomic. I will be shipped in the
next Boost release.