atomic accesses
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Wed Mar 5 20:46:00 GMT 2008
* Segher Boessenkool:
> Good point. Suggestions for better wording? How does
>
> "any access to a naturally aligned scalar object in memory
> that is not a bit-field and fits in a general purpose integer
> machine register, will be performed by a single machine
> instruction whenever possible"
Vectorization already breaks this promise, and so does dead store
elimination, at least if you interpret "single" as "exactly one".
"At most one" could be a better choice.
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