From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Subject: Re: Real OO Date: 1996/05/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152781437 references: organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 1996-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Don Harrison wrote: >In 'Ziggy', you would just write: > >op (a: separate A; b: separate B) is ... end -- locks a and b atomically > >No need for a wrapper. Sorry I wasn't clear. Yes, I understand the above. My question was, how does the person writing the Ziggy compiler/run-time system *implement* this "simultaneous" locking of a and b? At the machine-code level, I mean? - Bob