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On Dec 4, 2012, at 9:33, Julian Seward <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
>> It is a race, but one that has the same result as if everything were
>> serialized. If three threads all set this bit to 1, that's ok. It's ok
>> because they're all trying to write the same thing.
> 
> Do you have suitable memory fences in place, so it won't break in
> mysterious ways on targets that deliver stores out-of-order to other
> processors, eg Power7?

I'm ashamed to say I don't quite understand what can fail here but I'm not 
worried until I start supporting such architectures. Thanks for the warning 
though. 
> 
> Anyway .. 
> 
>> You're right, it is correctly flagged as a race, I'm just hoping to ask it
>> to not report this one.
> 
> You might be best off removing the magic macros shown in your first posting,
> and instead using Valgrind's suppression mechanism to hide precisely the
> error(s) you don't want to see.

Ok, thanks. 
> 
> J

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