I would like to know how an article is selected to list under "Great Reads"?

Oh ok got you.To say, I dont have any intention for hunting :) .Thanks for your clarification.

OK. But explaining will lead to an article :( .. No issues

Sorry I didnt get you.

But I think the code depicts the data race condition I hope...

OK Richard. Executing the code itself should tell him the what is data race. If really explanation is needed, I dont have any issue in giving that.

But how to find who has downvoted? It just shows as "Authority"..

Oh ok. When it showed "Authority" I thought the admin team has done. Thanks Pete.Sorry for the inconvenience.

I'm downvoted by when I answered the below question [ "Programming Forum answer downvoted" ] http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4971906/Re-Academic-Question-on-Multi-Core-Pragramming.aspx[^] Why?

2. Consequence of race condition: Your resource will go to a corrupted state. Not getting the expected result etc.,

Because the order of the execution. Suppose you have 4 floats a,b,c,d and you want to sum up them. In case of serial implementation, it will be like a + b + c + d But in case of parallel, it may execute like (a+b) + (c+d) So the result wont be same. This answers your 4th question.

int g_x = 0; DWORD WINAPI Add(void* p) //p unused parameter { g_x++; } void main() { HANDLE m_hArr[10]; int i = 0; for( ; i < 10; i++ ) { CreateThread( NULL,0,Add,NULL,0,&m_hArr[i]); } //Wait for all the 10 threads to complete its execution ::WaitForMultipleObjects(10,m_hArr,TRUE,INDEFENITE); //Now print the result.You expect 10 but it may not be... :) cout<<"g_x = "<

Thanks Guys.. :) Happy new year as well...

I'm not sure what I did. When the enter key is pressed, it starts a new block instead of moving to the next line in the same block.Because of this, space between 2 lines looks larger... What Should I do to go to the next line of same block?

I have scored 10K points. But still my membership designation is shown as "Prolific" and it is not changed to Legend.How long time it will take to change?

Got you. Thanks.

Why don't we have the repository to store the ebooks (free) so that it will be very useful for the members to download and use them?

Why don't we have the repository to store the ebooks (free) so that it will be very useful for the members to download and use them?

Thanks.

Thanks..