Implementation of memory model

[Ben Hutchings]

I expect that it will be necessary to get some implementation experience
with any proposed memory model in order to produce a practical proposal
that implementers will support and will adhere to if and when it becomes
part of the next standard (or even before then).  It will surely benefit
from Bill and Doug's experience with defining the Java memory model, but
there are issues with C++ that don't arise in Java.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any of you are involved
in implementation of C++ compilers.  So I think we should try to get at
least one implementer involved in this.  Perhaps you already planned to
do this at the Redmond meeting, Andrei?  Alternately it may be possible
for one or more of us to try out changes to GCC or EDG's C++ compiler,
though I suspect that's much easier said than done.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds