Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Sat Aug 27 2005 10:33 pm


David Hopwood wrote:
[...]
>                       Intel and AMD's documentation clearly do *not*
> guarantee anything about dependent loads. 

Because they guarantee (albeit in a somewhat confusing language) 
processor consistency model with classic "full" acquire for loads.

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/msg/40e6f068496500a7

regards,
alexander.

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