Subj : Re: YALFAm (Yet Another Lock Free Approach, maybe)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Wed May 18 2005 09:25 pm

> Even with the _InterlockedCompareExchange() intrinsic function on Windows?

Well, I am "not totally sure" of Microsoft's specific guarantees wrt 
implementing sensitive multi-threaded algorithms. It might be safe...


Yet again, it might not be so safe after all...

:O




>
> Why? The risk of it optimising things into a different order?

Exactly.




> I know the first time I do this I'll spend a lot of time working with the 
> compiled assembly code.

;)

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