Re: Heap memory available (W32 console app in Visual C++)

From:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:56:20 -0400

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CriCri <bitwyse@leTIRETmaquis.net> wrote:

Not at all - it is complete nonsense to everyone.

I quote you without clipping anything anywhere:
"it depends completely on the threads all acquiring the same mutex
before entering the critical section."

That is the same as saying
"all the threads must acquire the same mutex _before_ any may enter
the critical section" - implying that they must all do so at the same
time.

For the record, I don't see how one can reasonably interpret Doug's
phrase the way you do. It just says that each thread must acquire a
mutex before that particular thread enters a critical section - not that
all of them must somehow coordinate to enter the section simultaneously.
Frankly, your interpretation is ridiculous.

By the way, English is not my native language either.
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Igor Tandetnik

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