Subj : Re: Memory visibility and the C compiler... ( a bit long )
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Mon Jan 17 2005 11:43 am


SenderX wrote:
[...]
> paranoid. My library is intended to be used in production server code. I
> figured that if all of my lock-free stuff was totally contained in an
> externally assembled library, most of the issues wrt compiler reordering
> would go away. 

Nothing would go away. Think of JIT inlining and reordering. You're
still making assumption that may not hold.

regards,
alexander.

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