People think this program should contain a data race because `#1` and `#2` are
non-atomic operations, which satisfies the condition in
[intro.races] p17
Two actions are potentially concurrent if
they are performed by different threads, or
The execution of a program contains a data race if it contains two potentially concurrent conflicting actions, at least one of which is not atomic, and neither happens before the other, except for the special case for signal handlers described below. Any such data race results in undefined behavior ([ub:intro.races.data]).
However, this opinion is based on the premise
that they consider the operations at `#1` and `#2` to be non-atomic operations in any way. However,
[dcl.type.cv] p5 simultaneously states:
The semantics of an access through a volatile glvalue are
implementation-defined.
How about if a hypothetical implementation specifies the semantics as follows:
An access to a volatile int glvalue value is defined to have the exact semantics of std::atomic_ref<int>(value).load() for reads, and std::atomic_ref<int>(value).store() for writes.
Under these specified semantics, `#1` and `#2` should be considered as atomic operations, which won't satisfy the condition in [intro.race] p17, therefore no data race. From this perspective, isn't the program implementation-defined behavior? That is, whether the program contains a data race depends on how the implementation specifies the semantics