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Alexander Terekhov  
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 More options Feb 5 2005, 8:17 am
Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads
From: Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:17:07 +0100
Local: Sat, Feb 5 2005 8:17 am
Subject: Re: Memory Barriers, Compiler Optimizations, etc.

Ziv Caspi wrote:

[...]

> Microsoft has already provided some guarantees here, as specified in
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/MP_issues.mspx. In particular,
> it treats volatile reads as having acquire semantics, and volatile writes as
> having release semantics, so if you target CL 14 (or later), you have a
> solution.

I doubt it. KeMemoryBarrier* idiocy and braindead illustrations from
that piece speak volumes to the contrary.

regards,
alexander.


 
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