We have been able to use the io_service object and initialize the work object. What we should know after this is how to give some work to the io_service object. But before we progress to giving work to the io_service service, we need to understand the boost::bind library.
The Boost.Bind library is used to ease the invocation of a function pointer. It converts the syntax from something that is abstruse and confusing to something that is easy to understand.
Let's look at the following code in order to understand how to wrap a function invocation:
/* uncalledbind.cpp */
#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <iostream>
void func() {
std::cout << "Binding Function" << std::endl;
}
int main(void) {
boost::bind(&func);
return 0;
}Save the preceding code as uncalledbind.cpp and then compile it using the following command:
g++ -Wall -ansi -I ../boost_1_58_0 uncalledbind.cpp -o uncalledbind
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