[cpp-threads] Weak vs Strong Atomics

Paul E. McKenney paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 7 05:34:42 BST 2007


On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:18:12PM -0700, Lawrence Crowl wrote:
> On 5/6/07, Raul Silvera <rauls at ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> >The weak module cannot
> >interfere with the SC of the operations from the strong module; those will
> >still follow program order. The operations of the weak module may or may
> >not follow program order, but the program order of the weak module is
> >unknown to the strong module anyway.
> 
> Just what I wanted to hear.  Does anyone disagree with this statement?

I agree with Raul's statement.

							Thanx, Paul



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