Subj : Re: Tsigas & Zhang non-blocking concurrent shared-memory FIFO.
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 10:34 am

Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> In case anyone is trying to use the algorithms described in the paper,
> I think I have found a pointer recycling problem that is not taken care
> of. Multiple null pointer values are used to disambiguate recycled
> nulls, but the recycling of non-null pointers, the actual queue
> elements, isn't addressed at all.
[...]

Which paper is that?  The only papers I could find were for
Java (using Java GC) and using a circular queue (which makes
it just a lock-free producer/consumer problem).  


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Joe Seigh

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