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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Concurrent access to packed arrays
Date: 27 Jan 2001 17:37:29 +0100
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Mats Weber <matsw@mac.com> writes:

> Yes, I think there are. When task B writes the data, it will do
> something like
> 
>    The_String(Last_Written + 1) := ...
>    Last_Written := Last_Written + 1;
> 
> on modern architectures, the memory accesses can get reordered, i.e.
> Last_Written can get updated before The_String and reading tasks will
> read uninitialized data.

Very good point.  Thanks.  (Not every architecture has complex cache
coherency protocols like Intel's. ;-)

So I'm going to add an interface which uses a protected type.
(There's no need to use it by default because most of the time, no
concurrent access occurs.)