Re: semantics of multithreading?

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From	siegebell@googlemail.com
Subject	Re: semantics of multithreading?
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Date	2013-06-23 19:19 -0600

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On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:36:47 PM UTC-4, Michael Karcher wrote:
> While you are most likely right that the standard makes no guarantee on
> this, it still discourages implementations that do not let the example
> program terminate. See N3337 1.10, clause 2: "Implementations should ensure
> that all unblocked threads eventually make progress". As in the example
> program, neither thread is blocked, the store in thread 2 should eventually
> be reached.
>
> It goes on to explain that for example thread priorities in the execution
> environment might make guarantees implossible.

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.

-cj


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        Re: semantics of multithreading? usenet@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de (Michael Karcher) - 2013-06-18 11:36 -0700
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