Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:45:51 03/02/01
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On March 02, 2001 at 08:39:57, Pat King wrote: >if sizeof(somebuiltintype) <= sizeof(sig_atomic_t), is it garunteed that reads >and writes of somebuiltintype are atomic? > >thanks. > >Pat I don't think it matters. You _first_ use an atomic operation to lock the data in question, then you don't have to worry about whether the read/write is atomic. IE my hash entries are 16 bytes so that would probably never be an atomic read/write.
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