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Re: [cxx-mem-model] bitfield tests
On Mar 30, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
>> Is forcing word-alignment too big of a hammer, or will the users for these
>> architectures be content with having no support for the C++0x memory model?
>
> I think a memory model that cannot be reasonably (read: also fast) implemented
> on all HW is screwed from the start and we should simply ditch it. Which
> is because nobody will use it as you cannot rely on it when writing
> portable programs or it will be hell slow.
I agree 100%. If the standards people can't write a decent standard, they ought not write it. I torpedoed someone refining volatile, which would have been nice to have, because people were laying tracks down the wrong way. Nuke em from orbit I say. Now, I'm sure we have it all wrong and the standard is entirely reasonable... right?