Re: Compilers and RCU readers: Once more unto the breach!

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/20/2015 04:46 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> I'm not sure... you'd require the compiler to perform static analysis of
> loops to determine the state of the machine when they exit (if they exit!)
> in order to show whether or not a dependency is carried to subsequent
> operations. If it can't prove otherwise, it would have to assume that a
> dependency *is* carried, and it's not clear to me how it would use this
> information to restrict any subsequent dependency removing optimisations.

It'd just convert consume to acquire.

Andrew.

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