Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ No Guarantees WRT data access }
>>... seems to indicate that even whole ops like add P,P,P are atomic. > Yep. They have to be, because they need to guarantee the integrity of > the pmc structures and the data hanging off them (which includes > buffer and string stuff) But isn't that a contradiction? Or better: When even an opcode like above is atomic, that an access to a shared PerlNum should be guaranteed being atomic too. leo
