Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 08:45 pm


Scott Meyers wrote:
[...]
> But this would require that MS insert membars on all volatile accesses,
> because there is, in general, no way to know whether another part of the
> program uses an interlocked instruction.  Do MS and MS-compatible compilers
> really do that?

Nobody really knows what they do.

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/63b5c4eccdbc7528
http://groups.google.de/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/13cbf9a3e446bef0

regards,
alexander.

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