Is this atomic code correct?

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Mar 19 08:02:44 PDT 2009


BCS wrote:
> Hello Sean,
> 
>> min() doesn't perform atomic operations (in fact, it probably just
>> takes the parameters by value) so it isn't guaranteed to refetch the
>> values.
>>
> 
> Hmmm. I wonder how that mixes with it being a delegate. I guess inlining 
> and whatnot would make a difference. Ug.

Yeah.  It would probably actually work with the current DMD, but if a 
compiler inlined the call to min it could cache the result in a register 
and reuse it.


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