[cpp-threads] Atomic operations and memory barriers

Nick Maclaren nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk
Fri Nov 4 20:56:31 GMT 2005


> Atomics can't move across a barrier unless ordinary operations can do so as 
> well. 

Hmm.  There are multiple readings of the documents I have!

But we agree that is what should be specified :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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