Subj : Re: Consistency of a byte shared variable
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Jan 31 2005 01:43 am


"theepan" <theepan@wavenet.lk> wrote in message 
news:1107150470.128442.107180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...

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

    The question is really impossible to answer as stated. What standard are 
you coding to? What does it say? Is this a POSIX pthreads question? A WIN32 
platform question? A C++ standard question? A Sparc CPU implementation 
questoin?

    DS

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