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Re: Heads-up: volatile and C++
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:19:19PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | Seems to me that if C++ is all of the sudden interested in
> | dictating memory semantics for threaded programs, it should also
> | provide language capabilities for other synchronization models
> | and for threads (as in Java, though the memory model of Java used
> | to have problems of its own, dunno if they've been fixed).
>
> There has been formed a subgroup of the C++ evolution group looking at
> concurrency/threading.
>
Sounds interesting. But pretty please, don't introduce hidden
synchronization? Particularly if it's overloading keywords that
have been used for decades with completely different semantics.
Diego.