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@@ -4759,6 +4759,11 @@ assumes that the same (machine) code can be used to call any watcher callback: The watcher callbacks have different type signatures, but libev calls them using an C<ev_watcher *> internally. +=item pointer accesses must be thread-atomic + +Accessing a pointer value must be atomic, it must both be readable and +writable in one piece - this is the case on all current architectures. + =item C<sig_atomic_t volatile> must be thread-atomic as well The type C<sig_atomic_t volatile> (or whatever is defined as @@ -5006,5 +5011,6 @@ to be started (attached to an event loop) before they can receive events. =head1 AUTHOR -Marc Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>, with repeated corrections by Mikael Magnusson. +Marc Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>, with repeated corrections by Mikael +Magnusson and Emanuele Giaquinta. |