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Extreme C

You're reading from   Extreme C Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343625
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamran Amini Kamran Amini
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Essential Features FREE CHAPTER 2. From Source to Binary 3. Object Files 4. Process Memory Structure 5. Stack and Heap 6. OOP and Encapsulation 7. Composition and Aggregation 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism 9. Abstraction and OOP in C++ 10. Unix – History and Architecture 11. System Calls and Kernels 12. The Most Recent C 13. Concurrency 14. Synchronization 15. Thread Execution 16. Thread Synchronization 17. Process Execution 18. Process Synchronization 19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets 20. Socket Programming 21. Integration with Other Languages 22. Unit Testing and Debugging 23. Build Systems 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
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26. Index

Intrinsic concurrency issues

Every concurrent system with more than one task can have a number of possible interleavings, which can be thought of as an intrinsic property of the system. From what we've learned so far, we know that this property has a non-deterministic nature, which causes the instructions of different tasks to be executed in a chaotic order in each run, while still following the happens-before constraints. Note that this is something that has already been explained in the previous chapter.

Interleavings are not problematic by themselves and, as we've explained before, they're an intrinsic property of a concurrent system. But in some cases, this property dissatisfies some constraints that are meant to be conserved. This is exactly when interleavings yield issues.

We know that it's possible to have many interleavings while a number of tasks are being executed concurrently. Yet issues only arise when a constraint of the system, which should have...

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