Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 12:26 pm


Joe Seigh wrote:
[...]
> It's not part of the standard PC definition. 

What standard?
 
>                                              Not in the definitions
> that I googled and not in the definition in the Andy Glew posting
> and not in the definition in the ia32 manual.  

Because:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ahamad92power.html

"We have recently learned [11] that the processor consistency..." 

[11] 1993-tr-68.pdf:

"Our definition of PC is different from the definition provided by 
 Goodman [Goo91]; comparing these two definitions is difficult since 
 the definition in [Goo91] is ambiguous (see [ABJ +93] for an 
 alternative definition of Goodman's PC).

[ABJ +93] Go to Because.

Run this loop until Monday (or until you finally get it), Joe. Hth.

regards,
alexander.

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