Re: [boost] [thread] Use of _ReadWriteBarrier

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-08 09:28:13

Hartmut Kaiser wrote:

> FWIW, Intel V10 on Windows seems not to implement _ReadWriteBarrier
> neither (at least we get linker errors there as well).

Does its manual say something about reorderings across a volatile read or 
write? I think that giving volatile loads acquire semantics (and volatile 
stores release semantics) is an Intel invention later adopted by MSVC8, so 
it might already implement what we need.