On Monday 27 July 2009, Patrick Smears wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Patrick Smears wrote: > > 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. > > I have tried this out and it works well - great :-)
Good, thanks for the confirmation. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
