thread-synchronization

What is progress and bounded waiting in critical section?

by Tarik

First, let me introduce some terminology. A critical section (CS) is a sequence of instructions that can be executed by at most one process at the same time. When using critical sections, the code can be broken down into the following sections: // Some arbitrary code (such as initialization). EnterCriticalSection(cs); // The code that constitutes …

Program hangs in release mode but works fine in debug mode

by Tarik

I guess that the optimizer is fooled by the lack of ‘volatile’ keyword on the isComplete variable. Of course, you cannot add it, because it’s a local variable. And of course, since it is a local variable, it should not be needed at all, because locals are kept on stack and they are naturally always …