In this chapter we will explore the multithreading capabilities provided by the C language. Multithreading is a topic for a book on its own, so we will concentrate on the language features and relevant properties of the abstract machine rather than good practices and program architecture-related topics.
Until C11, the support of the multithreading was external to the language itself, via libraries and nonstandard tricks. A part of it (atomics) is now implemented in many compilers and provides a standard-compliant way of writing multithreaded applications. Unfortunately, to this day, the support of threading ...
