Re: Am I or Alexandrescu wrong about singletons?
On Mar 23, 2:05 pm, "Leigh Johnston" <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
"Joshua Maurice" <joshuamaur...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[...]
Sometimes you have to use common sense:
Modern memory models don't respect common sense very much.
thread A:
finished = false;
spawn_thread_B();
while(!finished)
{
/* do work */
}
thread B:
/* do work */
finished = true;
If finished is not volatile and compiler optimizations are
enabled thread A may loop forever.
And making finished volatile doesn't change anything in this
regard. At least not with Sun CC or g++ under Solaris, g++
under Linux on PC, and VC++8.0 under Windows on a 64 bit PC.
The behaviour of optimizing compilers in the real world can
make volatile necessary to get correct behaviour in
multi-threaded designs.
As has been pointed out: volatile is never sufficient, and when
you use whatever is sufficient, volatile ceases to be necessary.
You don't always have to use a memory barriers or a mutexes
when performing an atomic read of some state shared by more
than one thread.
Only if you want it to work.
--
James Kanze
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