Subj : Re: posix and lock-free algorithms
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu Aug 11 2005 06:26 pm


"Alexander Terekhov" <terekhov@web.de> wrote in message 
news:42FBBA94.8E37409@web.de...

> David Schwartz wrote:
> [...]

>>     Why not? POSIX defines the mutex functions as sychronizing memory.

> https://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg07705.html

    None of the nitpicks and complaints about missing details changes the 
fact that POSIX says these functions synchronize memory and that means that 
memory operations can't be moved from before them to after them. Yes, it's 
not perfect. But it still says at least that.

    DS

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