On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:40:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2014 10:31 PM, "Linus Torvalds" <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > So no, no, no. C got this wrong. Volatile data structures are a
> fundamental mistake and a bug.
>
> BTW, I'm not at all interested in language lawyering and people who say
> "but but we can do x". A compiler that modifies adjacent fields because the
> standard leaves is open is a crap compiler, and we won't use it, or disable
> the broken optimization. It is wrong from a concurrency standpoint anyway,
> and adding broken volatiles is just making things worse.
Understood, for example, adjacent fields protected by different locks
as one example, where adjacent-field overwriting completely breaks even
very conservatively designed code. Should be entertaining! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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