Re: [PATCH] [2.5] asm-generic/atomic.h and changes to arm, parisc, mips, m68k, sh, cris to use it
From: Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 18:04:40 EST
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Hi,
On 9 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> > The compiler can cache the value in a register
> It shouldn't since it is volatile and the machine has instructions with
> memory operands.
volatile is no guarantee for that:
volatile int x;
void f(int y)
{
x += y;
}
becomes:
move.l x,%d0
add.l 8(%a6),%d0
move.l %d0,x
I agree that volatile should avoid caching, but it does not guarantee an
atomic modify.
bye, Roman
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