From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] _xinc vs ainc
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 09:14:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <402395b7237060905dfe1a6d0ca443e1@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikqnHVz=s6yoJi2_J4FueDu4uFC5g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun May 8 02:01:57 EDT 2011, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> The type signature reveals all: ainc returns a long, and xinc is void.
>
> You really can't test the value of the long * after you call xinc
> because somebody else might have done an xinc after your xinc but
> before you test the value.
sorry ron, i don't see the motivation. the thread library
does not use the return value. if it did then clearly it would
have been wrong before. i would think that to change the
code we would need a good reason. and i see no reason
at all yet.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-08 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-07 13:05 erik quanstrom
2011-05-07 19:33 ` Bakul Shah
2011-05-07 22:47 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-07 23:10 ` Bakul Shah
2011-05-08 0:25 ` erik quanstrom
2011-05-08 1:24 ` Bakul Shah
2011-05-08 2:44 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-05-08 6:00 ` ron minnich
2011-05-08 13:14 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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