[fpc-devel] volatile variables

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:

>> All code executed in between such two calls is absolutely ignorant of 
>> the state of the CS, there is no in/outside.
>>
> The "State" (relevant to this thread) of CS does not change when some 
> code of the thread is between enter and leave. So it is not "ignorant" 
> but it does know that it "owns" the CS and is the only thread that is 
> inside.

The code in a called subroutine doesn't know about the CS. [It usually 
also doesn't care about from which exact thread it was called]

This means that possible recursion must be prevented in all related code 
in a CS, or (safer) that the CS must be "recursive" (spinlock?) on all 
platforms.

DoDi