Re: memory barriers (was: Yes, WaitLatch is vulnerable to weak-memory-ordering bugs)

On 14 September 2011 21:29, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been thinking about this too and actually went so far as to do
>> some research and put together something that I hope covers most of
>> the interesting cases.  The attached patch is pretty much entirely
>> untested, but reflects my present belief about how things ought to
>> work.
>
> And, here's an updated version, with some of the more obviously broken
> things fixed.

As I've already pointed out, the comment "Won't work on Visual Studio
2003" is not accurate:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f20w0x5e(v=vs.71).aspx

Besides, if it's not supported, why bother mentioning it?

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