Re: [LAU] Simple, easy multithreaded circular buffer library for Linux?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:36:56PM +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

> I don't see why it's fragile. There's no reason for the compiler to modify
> rb->read_ptr if not asked to. Buf if that's the case, because of some sort of
> dark voodoo optimization, then we could use a temporary variable to hold the
> intermediary result. Better, all computation could be done on this temporary
> variable and transfered into rb->read_ptr once finished, so that modifying the
> later only involves memory copy.

There is no reason indeed, and only a completely braindead
compiler would do it unless forced to, but it is not formally
excluded unless you make read_ptr volatile. Using a temporary
variable doesn't change the picture at all.

Ciao,

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FA
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