On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Mike O'Dell <mo(_at_)ccr(_dot_)org> wrote:
ISO C can demand anything it wants about atomicity, but given that It Doesn't Rule The World, portability may make other demands. C is still useful even when the underlying runtime doesn't belong to that church.
I can't stop a system from not adhering to the standard. But I can say 'not our fault' if that behaviour breaks MH somehow. Although one might argue that, when it comes to C, the ISO C standards do rule the world. Given C's application as the language to bootstrap nearly all the other higher-level languages and runtimes, breaking your C compiler or library is going to have potentially dire consequences. --lyndon
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