(j3.2006) co-array variable

[Aleksandar Donev]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:29, Craig Rasmussen wrote:
> Could you please tell me what you mean by atomic in terms of the ?
> standard. 
It is not in the standard--I used it in order to clarify the reasoning behind 
treating volatile scalars of a single numeric unit differently from others. 
We allow such a scalar to be referenced "concurrently" with other images 
defining it (this is not allowed for any other variable). Implementing this 
without complications requires an atomic "load" operation to load the value 
from memory. I cannot think a processor that would not have such a load for a 
single-word scalar. This is the only "atomic" operation we support in CAF as 
far as I can see.
Aleks

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