[Qt-interest] Proper way to terminate QThreads

[Mihail Naydenov]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 9:27:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Proper way to terminate QThreads
> 
> Em Terça-feira 17 Novembro 2009, às 18:36:48, você escreveu:
> > bool m_continue = true;
> > 
> > MyThread::run()
> > {
> >         while (m_continue)
> >         {
> >                 readFromSocket();
> >                 processData();
> >                 ...
> >         }
> > }
> > 
> 
> Please remember to make that a volatile bool.
> 
> Otherwise the compiler can (correctly) assume that, if it enters the loop 
> once, it doesn't ever have to exit that loop.

While on the subject, I was wondering why does the famous Mandelbrot  example neither define its "abort" and "restart" variable as volatile, nor
locks the mutex when accessing them (checking if set in the loop)? 
Is it save and why?

Just curious, thanks 
MihailNaydenov

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