[Omp] A problem with guard objects and exceptions on Intel

[Meadows, Lawrence F]

Dear Michael:

Implementing something that is easily usable by other folks is
at least as good as inventing it.

Regards, Larry 

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>On Behalf Of Michael Suess
>Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:10 PM
>To: Omp at openmp.org
>Subject: Re: [Omp] A problem with guard objects and exceptions on Intel
>
>On Friday 25 August 2006 19:17, Haab, Grant wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> I forgot to mention that I think your guard idea on the web site you
>> mentioned is very interesting. I really like the idea that 
>you can use
>> these guards for exception-safe "critical sections" that get
>> automatically unlocked when an exception is thrown outside 
>of "scope" of
>> the construct.
>[snip - old mail]
>
>Hi Grant,
>
>unfortunately the idea of scoped locking is not mine, but can 
>be found in many 
>textbooks on concurrent programming in C++ ;-). All I did was 
>apply it to 
>OpenMP and think through how it compares with our own 
>critical-directive. 
>Just wanted to mention this in case it was misunderstood...
>
>Thanks for checking out the article anyways,
>best regards,
>Michael
>
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