3.4.1 Producer-Consumer Problem Solution --------------------------------
Assumptions: Loads and Stores Are Atomic
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/* The following things are defined in memory
shared by the producer and consumer processes */
/* a constant denoting the buffer size */
#define BUFFER_SIZE 10
/* a data type to be used as the buffer item */
typedef struct
(
/* Appropriate fields to be contained in
an item are defined here. */
) item ;
/* declaration of an array of items */
item buffer [BUFFER_SIZE] ;
/* the location into which the producer
will place its next item */
int in = 0 ;
/* the location from which the consumer
will take its next item */
int out = 0 ;
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(producer code)
while (true)
{
/* call to local function and
use of local variable */
nextProduced = makeItem() ;
/* while buffer full */
while ( ( (in+1) % BUFFER_SIZE ) == out )
/* do nothing */ ;
buffer[in] = nextProduced ;
in = (in+1) % BUFFER_SIZE ;
}
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(consumer code)
while (true)
{
/* while buffer empty */
while ( in == out )
/* do nothing */ ;
/* store buffer[out] into a local variable */
nextConsumed = buffer[out] ;
out = (out+1) % BUFFER_SIZE ;
/* call local function */
consume(nextConsumed) ;
}
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