Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:03:30 -0400 | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH memory-model] docs: memory-barriers: Add note on compiler transformation and address deps |
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 08:10:27AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:36:21PM +0200, Jonas Oberhauser wrote: > > > > Am 10/20/2023 um 8:13 PM schrieb Paul E. McKenney: > > > Fair enough in general, but I cannot promise to never confuse people. > > > This is after all memory ordering. And different people will be confused > > > by different things. > > > > You can say that twice. In fact I suspect this is not the first time you say > > that :)) > > Easy for me to say, "that that that that that that that that that that"!
This reminds me of a sentence I once heard as an example of inscrutability. Written without punctuation, it goes:
Jack when Joe had had had had had had had had had had the teachers approval.
Properly punctuated, it says:
Jack, when Joe had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had the teacher's approval.
The context is supposed to be a comparison of the words two students used in their essays and how their teacher reacted. It actually makes sense when read carefully.
Alan
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