Subj : Re: stupid threading question ....
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : John Hickin
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 02:50 pm


"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> wrote in message
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> "Daniel Rayment" <dwrayment@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> > but how bout on a 2 or more processor machine?  in the unlikely event
that
> > 2 threads want to call the same function at the same time.   (Once again
> > we are not talking about accessing data types or sharing global variable
> > or anything that "obviously is bad").  ssuppose the function that gets
> > called at the same time is
>
>     Why would there be a problem? The function isn't changing, so two
> threads are just reading the same unchanging information.
>

If the thread function maps in a DLL the latter's init code will run. I
think that could be a Windows-specific gotcha.


Regards, John.

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