Re: Atomicity Question

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually -- come to think of it, I need to *lock* instead (i.e. not use a
volatile variable) in the code which prompted me to ask this question,
anyway.

> Not necessarily. You either need to make the variable volatile, or (my
> preferred route) always access shared data from within a lock.

Hmm... I'm beginning to see why you prefer to always use locking. :-)
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