Something needs to happen with shared, and soon.

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 15 November 2012 at 16:43:14 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:16 AM, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> What is the point of ensuring that the compiler does not 
>> reorder load/stores if the CPU is allowed to do so ?
>
> Because we can write ASM to tell the CPU not to.  We don't have 
> any such ability for the compiler right now.

I think the question was: Why would you want to disable compiler 
code motion for loads/stores which are not atomic, as the CPU 
might ruin your assumptions anyway?

David