[linux-audio-dev] Re: crossplatform atomics

[Robert Jonsson]

On Friday 26 May 2006 01:24, Loki Davison wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 19:57 +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> > > Does someone have a good reference on this? I think the writes just
> > > are not atomic, but you can use some tricks [1] to implement atomic
> > > behaviour by spinning until the operation succeeds.
> >
> > Do we still care about 32 bit sparc?
> >
> > Lee
>
> Doing audio on a 32 bit sparc.... mmm. Why not buy a spend 150 euro
> and by a 2-3 ghz intel/amd machine new?

I think the idea was that since one (old) architecture does not have atomic 
ints there might be more. 
Since I really could not care less about 32bit sparc, the more interesting 
question would be; is it possible that non atomic ints will crop up in future 
hardware designs?
To me it just sounds, really, really, really, improbable.

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/Robert