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by loonyphoenix 2528 days ago
Yes, it's quite possible to cause tearing in C#. It does not cause undefined behavior, but it can, for example, break invariants (supposedly enforced by privacy) in large enough structs.

See this example where I break encapsulation in a struct by abusing a race condition:

https://github.com/VictorGavrish/MultiThreading/blob/master/...