Re: Compiling C++ modules

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:53:01 +0300, Avi Kivity said:

> Additionally, C++ guarantees that if an exception is thrown after 
> spin_lock() is called, then the spin_unlock() will also be called. 
> That's an interesting mechanism by itself.

Gaak.  So let me get this straight - We lock something, then we hit
an exception because something corrupted the lock.  Then we *unlock* it
so more code can trip over it.

Sometimes the correct semantic is to *leave it locked*.

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