> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Bill Pugh
>
> This program is correctly synchronized and therefore must execute
> according to sequentially consistent semantics.
>
> The basic definition of "correctly synchronized" is, for all
> sequentially consistent executions of the program, an ordering
> consistent exists between any two conflicting accesses to a variable.
Okay I'll bite. How can the program be correctly synchronized when it
contains no synchronization code? If it did contain synchronization code
then any execution produced by the compiler/runtime/hardware must be
consistent with a sequentially consistent execution. As it stands, unless we
have decided for sequentially consistent semantics as a baseline for
unsynchronized code, then the compiler/runtime/hw can do whatever it likes
as long as the actions in each thread are consistent with the code in that
thread.
David Holmes
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