Subj : Re: YALFAm (Yet Another Lock Free Approach, maybe)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Sun May 15 2005 05:23 pm

> I have an idea about a 'mainly' lock free implementation that I'd 
> appreciate comments on.
> I'm attempting to solve the same sort of problem as Joe Seigh's atomic_ptr 
> (http://atomic-ptr-plus.sourceforge.net/), but in a way that will work on 
> win64 and win32 (so I want to avoid assembly and reliance on instructions 
> that are not present on some processors).

You simply can't avoid assembly language wrt lock-free programming. A C 
compiler is not trustworthy enough; it can and will screw you.

;(

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