Re: Accessing same variable from multiple threads

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From: Peter Str�mberg
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:55

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"Tumurbaatar S." <nospam_tumur@magicnet.mn> wrote in 
news:41edea6b@newsgroups.borland.com:

> There's a integer variable visible to 2 threads. One of the threads
> reads/modifies this var, but other thread only reads it.
> But an exact value of the var is not important for the 2nd thread.
> The thread checks it for zero or not, i.e. "if (my_var)...".
> Is it not matter that I'm not using any synchronization methods? 

If you don't want to use synchronization methods then declare the variable 
volatile

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Peter Str�mberg (55.6N 13.0E)
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