Re: C++ Threads, what's the status quo?

From:
"JohnQ" <johnqREMOVETHISprogrammer@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
15 Jan 2007 11:53:47 -0500
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"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168783071.409234.108290@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Zeljko Vrba wrote:

No race conditions are possible. Yes, wrapping x
into something Volatile<int> x _would_ work


I'm sceptical.

The problem here is that it goes beyond the data. What you need
isn't atomic access to the data, but atomic operations on the
data.


template<class T>
Volatile
{
    LockHandle my_lock;
   T my_data;
  public:
    .
    .
    .
    Volatile<T>& operator=(const T& a)
   {
        AutoLock lock(my_lock); // AutoLock is a mutex wrapper class
        if(this != &a)
        {
            my_data = a;
        }
        return *this;
   }
};

Volatile<int> x; // global x

void set_volatile_global_var(int a) // func called by multiple threads
{
   x = a; // synchronized operation on the data
}

John

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