When is this release expected.
This solves a long standing problem for me.

Thanks,
Madhan.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Julian Seward <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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