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Re: [doc, committed] copy-edit x86 transactional memory intrinsics section
- From: Patrick Marlier <patrick dot marlier at gmail dot com>
- To: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:38:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [doc, committed] copy-edit x86 transactional memory intrinsics section
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- References: <54E60C4A dot 9050800 at codesourcery dot com>
Thanks Sandra. Just a minor comment.
-Valid abort status bits (when the value is not @code{_XBEGIN_STARTED}) are:
+If the transaction aborts, the return value is one of:
Here it is really bits. So maybe something like that:
If the transaction aborts, the return value is a combination of the
following bits:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Sandra Loosemore
<sandra@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> A while ago when I was doing some other work on extend.texi, I noticed that
> the section on x86 transactional memory intrinsics was in need of cleanup.
> I've checked in this patch to do some content-free copy-editing -- fixing
> typos and markup, rephrasing some awkward sentences, etc.
>
> To tell the truth I don't think the documentation in this section is useful
> to anyone who doesn't already know how to use the feature, so it could
> still use more content-full editing as well. But, at least this is an
> incremental improvement.
>
> -Sandra
>