Richard Guenther writes: > On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unfortunately it seems that the POSIX standard for threads say that as long > > as access to a shared variable is protected by a mutex there is no need to > > use 'volatile'. > > Which is a very unpracticable say, as it essentially would force the compiler > to assume every variable is protected by a mutex (how should it prove > otherwise?) It's not as bad as you might think. The compiler consequences of adopting the N2334 memory model proposal are summarized here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2338.html Andrew.
