If I use BackgroundWorker to create two threads, and one thread is writing to a static member variable of a class while the other is reading, does this cause the application to crash?
If no, how does C++/CLI handle it?
Thanks in advance.
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If I use BackgroundWorker to create two threads, and one thread is writing to a static member variable of a class while the other is reading, does this cause the application to crash?
If no, how does C++/CLI handle it?
Thanks in advance.
It does not cause the application to crash per-se. It causes undefined behavior. Which means, more or less, anything can happen.
What you’re talking about is a race condition. These are bad; your main job when writing multithreaded code is to prevent these from happening.