On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:44:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Torvald Riegel <triegel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [ . . . ] > > The standard is clear on what's required. I strongly suggest reading > > the formalization of the memory model by Batty et al. > > Can you point to it? Because I can find a draft standard, and it sure > as hell does *not* contain any clarity of the model. It has a *lot* of > verbiage, but it's pretty much impossible to actually understand, even > for somebody who really understands memory ordering. I suspect he is thinking of the following: "Mathematizing C++ Concurrency." Mark Batty, Scott Owens, Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, and Tjark Weber. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/popl085ap-sewell.pdf Even if you don't like the math, it contains some very good examples. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
