On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Julian Seward wrote:

>
>> anyone change it between comparing it to A and setting it to B). Because
>> of the way Valgrind works (simulating instructions), the atomic
>> instructions get broken up into separate loads/stores, meaning that
>> they're no longer atomic (i.e. it's possible for someone to change the
>> location in question after it was compared to register A, but before it
>> was set to register B).
>
> That's fixed now, in the trunk (not 3.4.x).  If you put in atomic
> instructions then you should get out (something equivalent to)
> atomic instructions.  So V should now play nice with other processes
> communicating via shared memory.

Cool, that's good to know :) Is there a place I can read up on how this 
works?

Patrick


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