[cpp-threads] Yet another visibility question
Peter Dimov
pdimov at mmltd.net
Wed Dec 13 20:24:09 GMT 2006
Boehm, Hans wrote:
>> From: Peter Dimov
>>
>> Hans Boehm wrote:
>>
>>> The intent is definitely not to require per-variable TSO
>> for ordinary
>>> variables. As you point out, it probably doesn't matter which way
>>> it's stated here. But I think it's cleaner to explicitly only talk
>>> about synchronization operations.
>>
>> Just to clarify, "ordinary variables" is a shorthand for
>> "variables read or written using ordinary operations", right?
>> We won't require explicit tagging to distinguish "atomic
>> variables" from "ordinary variables", I hope. :-)
> Actually, in Lawrence's and my current draft proposal, we do
> distinguish. There are atomic types, even at the C level.
Is the draft available for viewing?
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