At 11:33 AM 20/01/2004, David Holmes wrote:
> From a practical stand-point I don't expect programmers to be trying
>to perform detailed analysis of the dynamic properties of their
>programs, such that the mind-boggling issues of causality come into
>play.
I certainly agree with that, but it is far from clear that a developer
would be aware that they were playing in this arena.
>In the context of the given example, simple code inspection
>shows what values a variable may hold over time.
A read of a variable can yield any value permitted by the memory model. A
"simple code inspection" involves reasoning which may or may not be valid
within the context of the model. How is a developer to determine whether
their notion of simplicity is a subset of the model?
Some of these things may seem like just plain common sense, but that's been
found wanting many times before.
Sylvia.
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