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From: Boba
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:09

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"Eelke" <e.klein@remove.mplussoftware.nl> wrote in message
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> An atomic operation is an operation which is executed completely before
> another thread can see the result of the operation. For instance the
> assignment of an int is atomic because the CPU changes all 32-bits at
> the same time so another thread sees either the old value or the new but
> never some combination.
>
> This is only true when the data is properly aligned.
>
> Eelke

all i ment was synchronization. see Mr.Lebeau's msg.
the op does not mention it. if [s]he is after the correctness
of rw only (regadless of timing) on a single cpu then yes, you
are right. with a multi processor system the story is different.

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