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Re: locking problem with mips atomicity

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:04:19AM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Sorry if I've missed the explanation, but why is using a memory clobber
> an improvement over an unused memory operand?

To make sure that any memory protected by the mutex is not
moved across the acquisition of the lock.


r~
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