Hello All!

While browsing the SMP V 2.11 Reference I noticed the following things.


> o An Application or associated subsystem must not use the 'INC'
> instruction as a semaphore without prepending a 'LOCK' prefix.

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>   In an OS/2 for SMP V2.11 environment this technique will not work
> because it is possible that two or more threads could be executing the
> same 'INC' instruction receiving the same results in each
> processor's/thread's flag

So, it is possible to have more threads executing the same code. ( provided
the UniProcessor flag has been reset... )

==> Gerard/2   - member of team os/2 -  1000521{at}ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

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