Subj : Re: double-checked locking in C
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sat Jul 09 2005 05:41 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:swYze.139672$Vj3.133001@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> "Implementation-defined", in the context of C, implies "must be 
> documented".
> Have you ever seen adequate documentation of precisely what volatile means
> for a specific platform? I haven't; basically you just have to guess and
> hope that the implementation doesn't do optimizations that break your 
> code.

    Or, better yet, just don't use 'volatile'.

    DS

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