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Re: V3: use generic atomic ops, move atomic-ops detection into , configure.target

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:15:39PM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > The generic stub implementations aren't actually atomic, e.g., __atomic_add
> > is done with "*__mem += __val;" rather than assembly.
> 
> Riiiiight. Kind of hard to write in generic assembly, no?

Exactly.  (Although, hey, Knuth did it...)


Phil

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