Subj : Re: Consistency of a byte shared variable
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Jan 31 2005 09:27 pm


"theepan" <theepan@wavenet.lk> wrote in message 
news:1107234028.304712.80710@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

>I think you got the point. My question is whether adjacent bits of a
> BYTE variable can be modified concurrently by threads.

    What language? What hardware? What standards are you coding to? Your 
question isn't about anything yet.

    Is this a WIN32 platform question? An x86 hardware question? A POSIX 
pthreads standard question? The answers are all different.

    DS

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