[Mono-list] System.Collections.Stack

[Garrett Rooney]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:51:57AM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 16-Jul-2001, David Menestrina <dmenest@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >   Locking here is unnecessary because reading from
> >   an int should be atomic. (It is in Java...)
> 
> Same is true for the CLR, according to the ECMA specs
> (11.6 in Partition I).

How about get and set functions that just access a variable?

like this:

public Foo {
	get {
		return foo;
	}
}

would the thread safe version need to be like this?

public Foo {
	get {
		lock (whatever) {
			return whatever.Foo;
		}
	}
}

or is the lock unnecessary?

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