"Adam Olsen" <rhamph@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I realize I'm "probably" safe if I ensure adjacent members are at > least as large as int (or long, or maybe long long, depending), but > I'm extremely mistrustful of C. I'm hoping to find a way to be *sure* > I'm behaving in a correct, portable manor. Unfortunately there is no such way. The only way you could be sure in a portable manner is for the C and/or C++ language standard to define how multi-threaded code should behave. But they don't. The next C++ standard, C++0x is intended to include definitions for multi-threaded programs. But it does not exist yet. Ian
