Subj : Re: posix and lock-free algorithms
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 12:29 pm


"Alexander Terekhov" <terekhov@web.de> wrote in message 
news:42FC6920.8B61F33A@web.de...

> David Schwartz wrote:
> [...]
>>     It just says synchronize memory.

> Exactly. Simply put, some functions do acquire, some do release, and
> just a few do both. They all "synchronize memory."

    I'm sorry, I don't buy that. If someone said to you "I need a function 
that synchronizes memory" you would not say "you can use an acquire, you can 
use a release, you can use both, these all synchronize memory". You are 
straining awfully hard to make a plain simple statement say something other 
than what it obviously does. If a function is required to "synchronize 
memory" with no weasel words, it must fully synchronize all memory.

    DS

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