Subj : Re: Memory Barriers, Compiler Optimizations, etc.
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : SenderX
Date : Mon Feb 07 2005 03:49 pm

>> Is this safe?
>>
>
> Yes. As another poster mentions a less contrived example
> would be using say InterlockedCompareExchange to do
> one time initialization and if the call fails using the return
> as the initialized value.

If the initialized value was a pointer to a new object, would the pointed to 
object be fully visible?

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