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Subject: Re: [boost] [lockfree] review
From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-25 13:57:33


"Stephan T. Lavavej" wrote:
>
> [Gottlob Frege]
> > What's the "independent reads, independent writes" problem? I've
> > probably heard, seen, or mistakenly had a bug due to it once, but
> > don't know it by name.
>
> Here's one explanation: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2177.html

Uhmm "...must not result in r1 = r3 = 1 and r1 = r3 = 0" sounds like a
typo (the second r1 = r3 = 1 is just copy&paste lacking subsequent edits
regarding numbers).

...must not result in r1 = r3 = 1 and r2 = r4 = 0 is what is meant, I
suppose.

regards,
alexander.


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