Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 11:05 am


"Scott Meyers" <usenet@aristeia.com> wrote in message 
news:11grrhq40j3p4ba@corp.supernews.com...

> Obviously I'm missing something.  Can somebody please clear up my
> confusion?

    The MS Interlocked instructions can only work on platforms where the 
compiler puts in any  necessary memory barriers on all accesses to 
'volatile' variables. This happens to be very easy to do on x86.

    DS

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