Re: Memory allocator semantics

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> So to be completely honest, I don't understand what is the race in (A) that
> concerns the *memory allocator*.  I also don't what the memory allocator can
> do in (B) and (C) which look like double-free and use-after-free,
> respectively, to me. :-)

Well it seems to be some academic mind game to me.

Does an invocation of the allocator have barrier semantics or not?




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