Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:01:38 +0100 | From | Michael Schnell <> | Subject | Re: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers |
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Leonidas . wrote: > but pointer > assignment would still be atomic. >
Yep. bit maybe the assignment to the memory cell that holds the pointer just would be optimized out and be done at all. This my be considered atomic but of course not desired for anything atomicness is considered for.
-Michael
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