(2005). The quoted "effort to revise the C++ language standard to better accommodate threads" was eventually achieved in C++11, which uses a separate type for

(2005). The quoted "effort to revise the C++ language standard to better accommodate threads" was eventually achieved in C++11, which uses a separate type for atomic variables (std::atomic) rather than relying on volatile, and has a formal memory model with a variety of memory orderings of different strengths (relaxed, acquire/release, sequentially consistent).