[concurrency-interest] How bad can volatile long++ be?

[Joe Bowbeer]

++ of any numeric field is not atomic with or without volatile.
however, all numeric fields except longs are read and written
atomically. volatile adds this feature to longs; otherwise the two int
halves might be processed separately.

On 12/10/07, Sam Berlin <sberlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm fairly certain that ++ is not an atomic operation, even on
> volatile variables, on longs (and quite possibly ints).  Given that is
> true (which it very well might not be), is it suspectible to problems
> where a wildly wrong number can be produced (due to different bytes
> being updated at different times from different threads), or will it
> just cause some increments to effectively not happen?
>
> Thanks!
>  Sam
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