Re: [avr-gcc-list] generic queue library for AVR GCC?

[Geoffrey Wossum]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 12:05 pm, address@hidden 
wrote:
> Wouldn't that require a change to the syntax of the c language?  Not
> that it's a bad idea but just don't expect to see it soon unless
> someone else has already proposed it to whatever committee oversees
> the language.
>
> As an aside, Java has a construct that would help here; you can put a
> "try" around code that might fail and have a "finally" block that
> always gets executed:

That's odd.  When I saw the proposed "critical" attribute, I thought it looked 
just like Java's synchronized attribute, which is in fact designed to prevent 
race conditions in multi-threaded Java code.

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Geoffrey Wossum
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