Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 10:43 pm


Torsten Robitzki wrote:
[...]
> Because the cited mircosoft documentation showed some snipped of code
> they claimed to work. Only one of the involved variables where volatile
> qualified. It might be that microsoft compilers don't reorder _any_
> access around a volatile variable.

Well, judging from 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclang/html/vclrf_ReadWriteBarrier.asp

I gather that nobody really knows what they do.

regards,
alexander.

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