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Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:59:05 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: Documentation for plain accesses and data races
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:11:29PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> I have spent some time writing up a section for 
> tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt on plain accesses and 
> data races.  The initial version is below.
> 
> I'm afraid it's rather long and perhaps gets too bogged down in 
> complexities.  On the other hand, this is a complicated topic so to 
> some extent this is unavoidable.
> 
> In any case, I'd like to hear your comments and reviews.

Thank you for writing this up, Alan, and sorry for the delayed reply.

The section looks great to me, and I have no further suggestions besides
the minor fixes which have been already pointed out in the thread.

Looking forward to your v2 (an actual patch),

  Andrea