14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
3:50 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1(a)gmail.com> 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? :)