I've been reading the newer C standard (n2310.pdf to be specific). That thing is scary.
I believe that, in the long haul, we will have to use the Atomic types stuff that's apparently part of the C standard now. Yeah, the switch to multi-threading made the standard way more complicated. Sequence points were so much easier to explain. I'm not quite sure how Atomic types actually relate to SMP, but I'm afraid it's currently the "best" warranty we will be stuck with to try and get "better" atomic writes... I haven't even looked to see what clang does with it.
