http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46096
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #4 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-20 14:24:30 UTC --- yes, they share the same address space, but modern processors have multilevel caches and unless you provide suitable synchronisation the write to alpha1->number might not get made visible to other threads I suggest you use a mutex around shared data