Re: Not able to generate race condition... please help

[Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:46 AM, mukti jain <muktijn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Seshi,
>
>  I  suppose  race is generated with  LOOPCONSTANT = 100000,
>  Actually for race  on the variables the threads need to be scheduled in the
> middle of updating the variables.
>  So you should do some minimum  work  in the thread function so other
> threads get chance to run.

Uhm, could it be because it's "int"? integer, AFAIK, at least in x86
32 bit, is updated atomically.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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