C programming questions. Please don't use any previous chegg solutions, if there are any, if you do I will be forced to down vote the solution so please provide an original answer.

1. The pseudo-code below illustrates the basic push() and pop() operations of an array-based stack. Assuming that this algorithm could be used in a concurrent environment, answer the following questions: a. What data have a race condition? b. How could the race condition be fixed?

2. Discuss the trade-off between fairness and throughput of operations in the readerswriters problem. Propose a method for solving the readerswriters problem without causing starvation.

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