Implementation of memory model

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

My hope is to convince Howard Hinnant to join us by using beer as
bribe.

Andrei

Thursday, September 16, 2004, 5:23:04 PM, you wrote:

> 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.