Subj : Re: a thread question
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu May 12 2005 06:50 pm


"Chris Thomasson" <_no_damn_spam_cristom@_no_damn_comcast.net_spam> wrote in 
message news:fKadnShMCNJ2eR7fRVn-hw@comcast.com...

> How could thread_c modify and/or read a_local and/or b_local "without" 
> deliberately passing a pointer or corrupting anything?

    If you're asking how can it happen accidentally, the answer is of course 
through some bug that causes thread_c to happen to hit the address of 
a_local or b_local. You can only not do something deliberately through a 
bug. However, if you want other threads to access it, it's not difficult to 
set up. As for "corrupting anything", what are you talking about? Threads 
are supposed to share variables -- that's the whole point of them.

    DS

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