Validity of InterlockedCompareExchange64 + Read32 operations mix.

[OTorg]

Objective:

I have a chunk of memory shared between several x86/x64 processes/threads.

Inside it I have QWORD (64 bit) variable aligned on 8-byte boundary.

That variable is accessed by one writer and several readers simultaneously, mix of x86 and x64 readers/writers is possible.

Let's say that variable is declared/named as QWORD qwSharedVar, and compiler is MSVC with /volatile:ms behaviour.

Suppositions:

1.
If writer process is x64, it writes a new value in a such way:

*reinterpret_cast< volatile QWORD* >( &qwSharedVar ) = qwNewValue;

2.
If writer process is x86, it writes a new value in a such way:

_InterlockedCompareExchange64( reinterpret_cast< volatile __int64* >( &qwSharedVar ), qwNewValue, qwSharedVar );

3.
If reader process is x64, it reads a shared value in a such way:

QWORD qwValueNow = *reinterpret_cast< volatile QWORD* >( &qwSharedVar );

4.
If reader process is x86, it reads a shared value in a such way:

QWORD qwValueNow = _InterlockedCompareExchange64( reinterpret_cast< volatile __int64* >( &qwSharedVar ), 0, 0 );

5.
If reader process is x86 or x64, and it wants to read only lower DWORD of shared value, then:

DWORD dwValueNow = *reinterpret_cast< volatile DWORD* >( &qwSharedVar );

Are those suppositions legal?

I'm especially worried about point 5, where mix of accesses through "lock cmpxchg8b" and "mov dword ptr" is possible.

[Alberto_Sykes]

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[OTorg]

Yes, I'm a software developer. I can't provide the name of the project and other similar information (as it seems to me, not relevant to the essence of the question), because no project exists. I want to understand the architectural nuances in order to use them correctly in the future.

And while you are carefully thinking about the name of the project, I have already received adequate answers to my question from stackoverflow community:)

[Alberto_Sykes]

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