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On 2023-05-12 14:17, Rod Kay wrote:
>     Surely only the least significant bit of the least significant byte is 
> relevant and so the value cannot be garbled by one task writing and another 
> reading at the same time ?

Boolean types with other representations using multiple bits are possible, so 
your assumption doesn't hold.

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Jeff Carter
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