[cpp-threads] Weak vs Strong Atomics

[Herb Sutter]

> 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.

Me too. He said it more clearly than my attempt express why I didn't think it was a problem.

Herb