Re: [Vala] volatile

[rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>]

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El 28/07/11 10:25, Maciej Marcin Piechotka escribió:

Hi:

> Remember that the marking variable as volatile in C does not make it
> atomic. You still need something like:
>
> volatile int i = 0;
>
> // if (i)
> if (GLib.AtomicInt.get(ref i) != 0)
> ..
>
> // i = true;
> GLib.AtomicInt.set(ref i, 1);
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_variable#In_C_and_C.2B.2B
>
> (I'm sorry if you do know that but either a) you do something
> complicated and you need it b) you don't know that)

In my case I don't need the read or write to be atomic; anyway, thanks
for the note, I didn't know those functions.

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