Dave Tweed wrote:

> Sergio wrote:
> > Ok, further to Dave's asertion that we could use a flag to allow us to
> > completely fill the FIFO. I have revised the FIFO code I posted and come
> > up with the following (appended to the end of this post). It uses two
> > extra counts instead of the one flag proposed by Dave.
>
> Actually, that gives me an idea. If you simply allow the "head" and "tail"
> variables to count to twice the size of the FIFO, then they can perform
> both the indexing function and the counting function, with very little
> additional overhead, and no added thread-safety issues.

Nice. Solves many buffer problems .

Regards,

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Walter Banks
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