Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 11:01 pm

"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

>> 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?
>
>     On x86, it's not needed. I'm not sure about other platforms.

I guess MS doesn't care about other platforms.

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