Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Sean Kelly
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 08:42 am

Joe Seigh wrote:
>
> Anyway, we're *not* talking about release consistency.  We're talking
> about whether PC implies loads (not stores) are in order or not.  I
> provided a counter example to the in-order theory.
>
> I'm going to stick with the loads are out-of-order model.

Out of curiosity, how would you write code to handle this model for
x86?  Use LOCK on loads as well?


Sean

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