Re: Compilers and RCU readers: Once more unto the breach!

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri May 22 2015 - 09:11:42 EST


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 06:43:32AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > (Assuming it's a goal of this standard to be human parseable to more
> > than a few dozen people on the planet.)
>
> Unfortunately, that's rarely a goal of most standards. ;-)

My experience does match Richard's, sad to say. There has been some
vigorous discussion in another thread involving undefined behavior and
value narrowing, which has resulted in some useful changes to Section 7.9.
The updated document is here:

http://www2.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/consume.2015.05.22a.pdf

Thanx, Paul

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