On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:08:41AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > There would be no way to write something like a > > spin-lock. > > iam no spinlock expert but i think you cannot write a spinlock in pure > iso/ansi C, The concept of spinlock makes no sense in iso/ansi C since there is no concurrency in the language. :) Rich