Subj : Re: CAS question To : comp.programming.threads From : Toby Douglass Date : Sat Mar 26 2005 08:03 am davids@webmaster.com wrote: > "Toby Douglass" wrote in > Note, however, that an atomic operation in this sense is *NOT* atomic > with respect to other processors! Ah - of course! I didn't think about that and missed it. Therefore, the answer to the original question is that only the final, evaluated arguments to the atomic API function call are operated upon atomically. -- Toby .