[linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

Tim Goetze tim at quitte.de
Tue Dec 10 11:15:20 UTC 2002


Paul Davis wrote:

>no, atomic is 32 bits on x86. its only 24 bits on sparc, where
>the need to provide a spinlock to cover cache write-back effects
>forces it to 24 bits. you can do atomic exchange and compare-and-swap
>on pointers for x86.

thanks for the correction. sacrificing portability, this 
makes some interesting and flexible constructs possible.

tim




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