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Subject: [Boost-users] atomic_count overflow/underflow behaviour
From: Narcoleptic Electron (narcoleptic.electron_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-23 11:46:08
What is the behaviour of boost::detail::atomic_count overflow? I
realize that overflow for a signed long is undefined, but it is
possible that each platform-specific atomic increment operator handles
overflow in some documented way, which in sum would constitute a
defined behaviour for atomic_count overflow. Documenting this
behaviour (along with that of underflow, which is presumably the same)
in the atomic_count documentation would be extremely helpful.