[cpp-threads] A question about N2153

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:59:41PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:44:00PM +0200, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >> What is the reference implementation of acquire_fence for x86, SPARC RMO,
> >> PowerPC, IA-64? I'm guessing (no op), #LoadLoad | #LoadStore, lwsync, mf.
> >
> >Stupid side question...  Why acquire_fence and release_fence?  This is
> >the only group I have come across that uses these.  Where I come from,
> 
> Ask paulmck at us dot ibm dot com. :-)
> 
> http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2153.pdf
> 
> (Sorry, just couldn't resist.)

Touche!  ;-)

I am pretty sure that N2153 is not the first place I have seen this,
however.

						Thanx, Paul