locking problem with mips atomicity

[Michael Eager]

Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> > > Better is to make the compiler force the address into a register.
> > > It may already be that way, resulting in "la r3,0(r4)".
> >
> > This is exactly what this code does.
> 
> He means to force it in without using the la macro.
> 
> In fact, I think I'd prefer this.

How?


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