Optimization of conditional access to globals: thread-unsafe?

[Tomash Brechko]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:42:10 +0300, Tomash Brechko wrote:
> It means that the current thread is free to cache the value in the
> register as long as it knows no other thread can access it (i.e. as
> long as it holds corresponding mutex).

And because your next question will be "how the compiler will know the
corresponding mutex", the answer is: it can't, that's why "opaque
function" rules come to play.


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   Tomash Brechko