Dynamic reads without locking.
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at acm.org
Fri Oct 10 00:46:03 PDT 2003
Harti Brandt wrote:
> Yes. When I read the C standard
> foo = data & mask;
> wouldn't also help, because there is no sequence point in this statement
> except at the ;.
Before anyone takes this particular line of reasoning seriously,
I feel compelled to point out that sequence points have nothing to
do with this.
a) Sequence points are an "as if" requirement. The
program must produce the same results "as if" it
strictly obeyed sequence points. It doesn't have
to really operate that way. (And, in fact, well-optimized
programs running on modern processors rarely do.)
b) Sequence points say NOTHING about how multiple
threads or processors interact.
Sorry, but the C standard doesn't help here. The
C standard does not address multi-threading at all.
Tim Kientzle
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