Re: Named shared memory without synchronization

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"Ben Voigt" <rbv@nospam.nospam>

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Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:18:16 -0600

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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"Ben Voigt" <rbv@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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wouldn't this be atomic?
LOCK DEC ptr [eax]

I believe so. _InterlockedDecrement intrinsic is doing LOCK XADD, for what
it's worth.

Is that because condition flags (zero, negative, overflow) are set
differently for DEC and XADD?

Of course the compiler isn't required to generate the LOCK prefix...
with volatile would it be forbidden to?

I don't see why it would be forbidden, but it's probably not required
either. I don't see VC8 32-bit compiler doing it for volatile variables -
maybe 64-bit compiler does.

Since the semantics of (*p)-- specify a read and a write, and the compiler
isn't allowed to optimize away reads or writes on volatile variables, I
thought maybe it would have to generate separate read and write
instructions.

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