Acquire Release: The Typical Misunderstanding

This lesson highlights a typical misunderstanding while using acquire-release in C++.

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What is my motivation for writing about the typical misunderstanding of the acquire-release semantic? Many of my readers and students have already fallen into this trap. Let’s look at the straightforward case. Here is a simple program as a starting point.

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