Re: [boost] Re: Work in progress list? And how about a singleton?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-16 09:57:17

From: <scleary_at_[hidden]>
> No, threading is not covered.  But the Standard does guarantee that at a
> sequence point, all side-effects (including memory writes) are consistent.
> The whole problem with DCL is that some systems re-order those writes in a
> write cache, and flush them occasionally -- my point is that that
behaviour
> is not Standard-conforming.  As I see it, anyway :)

The memory view is consistent for every thread on its own - thus conforming
to the standard - but is not necessarily consistent across threads.

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.