On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 18:51:12 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 18:23:51 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:One way is to ensure write is atomic w.r.t. that particular read operationAre't pointer writes always atomic?No. But *aligned* word-sized writes *on x86* are. David
Right, but this was specifically meant for x86 (as I mentioned in the OP) and pointers are aligned by default. :)
