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Re: Optimization of conditional access to globals: thread-unsafe?
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:59:24 +0300, Tomash Brechko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:56:08 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > > The use doesn't become proper simply because it appears in the code,
> > > even if in the code of GCC. volatile might be used there for
> > > completely different reasons.
> >
> > No, I put it there for this purpose.
>
> Then you could remove it, if not for unlocked access.
Frankly, you realise the consequences of volatile access, you have
this comment:
/* Avoid reading __gthread_active twice on the main code path. */
int __gthread_active_latest_value = __gthread_active;
Now, do you really believe that every multithreaded program should use
volatile, and then should copy shared data to temporal storage, just
because volatile is such a hammer? You may have to, with current
compilers, but that's not what was supposed by POSIX.
--
Tomash Brechko