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Document number: N4013

Date: 2014-05-26

Atomic operations on non-atomic data

by Hans-J. Boehm

Excerpt:

Here we address the question of whether there should be some mechanism for applying atomic operations to non-atomic data. As pointed out in the next section, we address a somewhat different set of problems from prior discussion of non-atomic operations on atomic data (c.f. the last part of  N3710 or the Issaquah discussion.