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Re: Ordered load/store attributes?

* Richard Henderson (rth@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:14:13AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> >   Are there any attributes that can be placed on a pointer or
> > variable to say that accesses through/of it are made using ordered
> > loads and store operations on architectures that perform reordering?
> > (e.g. force use of ld.acq and st.rel on Itanium?)
> 
> volatile.

Ah - I hadn't expected volatile to be that smart.  Doh.

Thanks.

Dave
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