[boost] Re: volatile and thread-safety

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-01 17:54:13

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Andrei is only talking about registers, but not about CPU caches (L1,
> L2), or about memory barriers. IIRC, people in the end agreed that
> using volatile is by no means a guarantee for thread-safe access to
> memory, at least not in multi-processor architectures.

Yes, I was pretty sure that part of the article was bogus, but I'm
really interested in the other part.

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Dave Abrahams
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