Re: Lets hope easier multi-threaded programming gets on the RoadMap

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:52:22 -0600, Charles McAllister wrote:

the most basic thing that would be useful (to me) would be an
optional compiler warning which would identify sections of code
that were not thread safe. for instance, i can go through this
process manually, and place critical sections around references to
global variables -- But, what's to stop a junior programmer from
writing code later that references those global variables without
going through critical sections.
Technically this is difficult any variable reference is not threadsafe
with the exception of variables defined in a procedure.

Also how do you know what has been protected? The only way to know if
code in subroutines has been protected is by doing static analysis.

--
Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
marc -at- marc rohloff -dot- com
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