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From: Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Interlocked operations, volatile
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David Schwartz wrote:
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> If your coding POSIX threads, you need CAS or mutexes or atomic
> operations because POSIX says so. It is also interesting in some cases

Apart from mutexes, CAS and other atomics trigger undefined behaviour
under POSIX due to XBD 4.10.

regards,
alexander.