On 28 Jun 2011, at 15:05, Andrew Brunner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be
> wrote:
On 28 Jun 2011, at 14:58, Andrew Brunner wrote:
A mutex may be able to atomically block access because of its own
memory barrier, but I would suggest that employing such a
technique on
multi-core systems will not ensure an accurate value.
pthread_mutex() does guarantee that. I don't know about the Windows
equivalents.
Specification just describes standard mutex. What makes pthreads
specification different to include ordering?
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/
V1_chap04.html (point 4.11)
Jonas
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