Re: Compiling C++ modules
From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 14:08:51 EST
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:53:01 +0300, Avi Kivity said:
> Additionally, C++ guarantees that if an exception is thrown after
> spin_lock() is called, then the spin_unlock() will also be called.
> That's an interesting mechanism by itself.
Gaak. So let me get this straight - We lock something, then we hit
an exception because something corrupted the lock. Then we *unlock* it
so more code can trip over it.
Sometimes the correct semantic is to *leave it locked*.
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