This is a very mechanical task that could almost have been done with
sed. Boost versions of mutexes and locks were removed, and replaced with
std:: versions. The replacement tables are as follows:
== Mutexes ==
- boost::mutex -> std::mutex
- boost::recursive_mutex -> std::recursive_mutex
Mutexes behave identically between Boost and std:: and have the same
API.
== Locks ==
C++11 has only two types of lock that we use/need in UHD:
- std::lock_guard: Identical to boost::lock_guard
- std::unique_lock: Identical to boost::unique_lock
Boost also has boost::mutex::scoped_lock, which is a typedef for
boost::unique_lock<>. However, we often have used scoped_lock where we
meant to use lock_guard<>. The name is a bit misleading, "scoped lock"
sounding a bit like an RAII mechanism. Therefore, some previous
boost::mutex::scoped_lock are now std::lock_guard<>.
std::unique_lock is required when doing more than RAII locking (i.e.,
unlocking, relocking, usage with condition variables, etc.).
== Condition Variables ==
Condition variables were out of the scope of this lock/mutex change, but
in UHD, we inconsistently use boost::condition vs.
boost::condition_variable. The former is a templated version of the
latter, and thus works fine with std::mutex'es. Therefore, some
boost::condition_variable where changed to boost::condition.
All locks and mutexes use `#include <mutex>`. The corresponding Boost
includes were removed. In some cases, this exposed issues with implicit
Boost includes elsewhere. The missing explicit includes were added.
The function was directly accessing the error message cache, bypassing
locks, and thus could be faulty if being called the same time as another
UHD component would update the error string.
* Cleaned up usage of handles vs. handle pointers
* Store global string for last error thrown
* Removed uhd::device_addr_t handle, added std::vector<std::string> handle
* multi_usrp, multi_usrp_clock, and associated classes accessible through C
* Added Doxygen documentation explaining structure and API
* Simple RX and TX streaming examples
* Unit tests for different parts of C interface and C++ error conversion
