Re: [LAD] Atomic Operations

Wasn't that just for 32 bit floats though? They were implemented as a structure that implied multiple write operations, they only garanteed the mantissa, not the exponent. I am pretty sure integer memory IO was guaranteed as that is where the 24 bits came from. nick. "we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”. Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:50:42 -0500 > From: paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com > To: radarsat1(a)gmail.com > CC: linux-audio-dev(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > Subject: Re: [LAD] Atomic Operations > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/so…