On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> As far as I understand
> this doesn't happen as long as you stick to the word size of the
> architecture. (Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.)
unbelievably, perhaps, this was not true on SPARC. atomicity was only
guaranteed for 24 bits of a 32 bit value. funny old world, eh? :)
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