[Bug c++/52558] write introduction incorrect wrt the C++11 memory model

[aldyh at redhat dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52558

--- Comment #10 from Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com> 2012-03-12 15:56:30 UTC ---
On 03/12/12 10:45, rguenther at suse dot de wrote:

>> Just to get this straight, am I to assume that the default code
>> generation for GCC is a single threaded environment?  I just want to
>> make sure I get these variants right in my head, and can properly
>> separate what is and is not allowed in default GCC, and what only
>> pertains to the C11 memory model (or transactional stuff).
>
> It certainly is, though we are getting more careful about this stuff
> in recent years and generally only read data-races are ok.
>
> Richard.
>

Ah, ok.  Now it's clear.  I was confused because in a previous thread 
months ago you had mentioned that read data-races were ok, but write 
data-races were not, whereas here we are even allowing write data races.

Understood.

Thanks.