Subj : Re: Consistency of a byte shared variable
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ulrich Eckhardt
Date : Mon Jan 31 2005 07:23 am

theepan wrote:
> Does a shared byte variable is consistent in its state(without any
> sort of locking ), among threads? 

No. Consider a multiprocessor system with different caches - you need
memory barriers.

Uli

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