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		kiitos 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atomics and Concurrency Yeah in fact there is no such thing as a benign data race -- https://web.archive.org/web/20181022150257/https://software....

vlovich123 10 months ago [–]

I agree. That doesn’t mean that TSAN doesn’t have false positives even though they may be rare.

kiitos 10 months ago | [–]

Sure, but nobody is gonna rely on TSAN to determine data races in their code :)

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