Subj : Re: recursive mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Thu May 19 2005 12:54 pm

"Chris Thomasson" <_no_damn_spam_cristom@_no_damn_comcast.net_spam> writes:

> As for portability, I still don't trust C compilers. They can
> reorder instructions under your nose. This is why I try to keep all
> of my lock-free code in externally assembled functions. This can
> limit the number of chances a C compiler has to screw you over:

I don't know about others, but gcc should not reorder things around
"volatile asm" with correct inputs/outputs/clobbers in a way which
breaks multithreaded code.

And if it does, it's a bug and an external function will break this
as well.

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