Re: [Valgrind-users] Execution of a dirty helper: atomic?

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

It is hard to answer this question since it is not really clear what
you mean by "atomic" here.  Can you clarify?

J

On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Emilio Coppa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if Valgrind assures atomic execution of a dirty
> helper. In more detail I am interested in the situation:
> 
> ---
> access to a memory cell
> call to a dirty helper X() [inserted by unsafeIRDirty_0_N]
> execution of X()
> ---
> 
> Is this executed atomically by Valgrind?
> I know that Valgrind serialises execution so that only one thread is
> running at a time but this is another problem.
> 
> Emilio.