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Thanks to everyone, I really enjoyed this discussion and I fully agree that failure to protect shared variables is normally bad form, sloppy and / or lazy. That can lead to "dangerous" situations...

Codeplug, thanks for the post.

For the value of x, I think I can put it to rest. Without synchro, the value can be anything at any given time.

Arjay,

Just one last question, could you...

Ok, thanks again for the posts. I get the feeling that I'm going wrong somewhere and if anybody has the patience to go back to basics to find out where, please let me know.

I start with x=x+1...

Thank you for your replies.

I have a good understanding of the system objects available to protect the counter variable above. This example comes from a larger system. Adding one line of code,...

Hello everyone, I'm new here and would like your thoughts on the following 'code' snippet with two followup questions

static int x=0;

int main()
{
new thread1();

while 1
{