[futures.overview]

# 32 Concurrency support library [[thread]](./#thread)

## 32.10 Futures [[futures]](futures#overview)

### 32.10.1 Overview [futures.overview]

[1](#1)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/threads.tex#L11126)

[[futures]](futures "32.10 Futures") describes components that a C++ program can use to retrieve in one thread the
result (value or exception) from a function that has run in the same thread or another thread[.](#1.sentence-1)

[*Note [1](#note-1)*:

These components are not restricted to multi-threaded programs but can be useful in
single-threaded programs as well[.](#1.sentence-2)

— *end note*]