On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:45 AM, William "Chops" Westfield
<westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
>
>> Atomicity is a completely seperate issue as far as the compiler is
>> concerned
>
> Do any C compilers include support for "atomicity" ? =A0GCC doesn't, nor
> Intel's C compiler for x86,


atomicity is generally achieved using semaphore's, mutexes, spin-locks
etc to handle concurrency

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutex
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_%28programming%29
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinlock

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