Subj : Re: Adding thread support for C...
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sat Jul 23 2005 07:02 pm


"Markus Elfring" <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote in message 
news:3kf7fdFu4ojlU1@individual.net...

> Do you need to stop an assembler optimiser to break multithreaded code?
> How do you avoid that a linker will do any damage to the desired execution 
> paths?

    The compiler should know how to tell the linker and/or optimizer what to 
do so that the compiler does what it's documented to do. (Which is to 
generate code that behaves as intended on all supported platforms.)

    DS

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